“And dreamed about death in the staggering particular, death as if death were still never yet heard of while something was ringing, she gasping, dissolving, slipping off into void while thinking over and over, I am not going to be,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“Abruptly sagging, Chris stared at the floor. “Go ahead,” she said softly. “Do whatever you have to. Just make her well.” “May” — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“Well, what’s wrong?” “I don’t know, Doc, I just can’t describe it! Please come over right away! Come now!” — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31 You do… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share
