The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

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

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

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

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.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.