When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

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.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

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.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.