Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

- William Peter Blatty

In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration…

- William Peter Blatty

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 …

- William Peter Blatty

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

- William Peter Blatty

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

- 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.

- William Peter Blatty

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

- William Peter Blatty

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time wit…

- William Peter Blatty

Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each …

- William Peter Blatty