God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“The man of my dreams is almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it? — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence. — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts… — 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 Image
(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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
