William Peter Blatty

“And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.”

“Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.”

“The child was slender as fleeting hope.”

“Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.”

“But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?”