94 Quotes by William Peter Blatty

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — “William F. Kinderman”.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

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.

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?

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

«Bugiardo! Bugiardo bastardo! Dicci, dov’è la tua umiltà, Merrin? Dove l’hai lasciata, nel deserto? Nelle rovine? Nelle tombe dove cerchi di fuggire dal tuo prossimo? Fuggire dagli ultimi, da quelli che non hanno una mente acuta come la tua? Sei capace di parlare agli uomini, feccia d’un prete?…»

Something unspeakable left the room.