“It’s at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“It is June 27, 1912. You are lying in your bed in the Grand Hotel and it is 6 p.m. on the… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's embrace. To… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers. No longer… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share
To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
“The man of my dreams is almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each woman dreams… — Richard Matheson Copy Share
