Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

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.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

Israel must be wiped off the map.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?