Richard Matheson

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

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values.…

— Richard Matheson

“He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's…

— Richard Matheson

“All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers.…

— Richard Matheson

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I…

— Richard Matheson

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They…

— Richard Matheson

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

— Richard Matheson

“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…

— Richard Matheson

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was…

— Richard Matheson

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights,…

— Richard Matheson

“No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence…

— Richard Matheson

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers…

— Richard Matheson

“I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I…

— Richard Matheson

To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books…

— Richard Matheson

“The man of my dreams is almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each…

— Richard Matheson

“Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might…

— Richard Matheson

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one…

— Richard Matheson

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel…

— Richard Matheson

“She doesn't have to even give me supper. Im not hungry anyway. Im full. (Dress of White Silk)”

— Richard Matheson

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of…

— Richard Matheson

“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.…

— Richard Matheson

“I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I…

— Richard Matheson

'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

“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a…

— Richard Matheson

“Here we are, kiddies, sitting like a bug in a rug, snugly, surrounded by a battalion of bloodsuckers who wish no more…

— Richard Matheson