Ira Levin

"He touched me... Control myself and try to act As if I remember my name But he touched me...he touched me... And suddenly nothing is the same!"

"I feel guilty that Rosemary's Baby led to The Exorcist, The Omen [...] A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books. Of course, [...] I didn't send back any of the royalty checks."

"Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available."

"Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveller."

"Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster."

"[Levin] is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel; in terms of plot, he makes what the rest of us do look like those five-dollar watches you can buy in the discount drugstores."