Richard Matheson

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that,…

— Richard Matheson

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

— Richard Matheson

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

— Richard Matheson

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.…

— Richard Matheson

“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the…

— Richard Matheson

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for…

— Richard Matheson

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

— Richard Matheson

“The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away. Why?…

— Richard Matheson

“Let this hell be our heaven.”

— Richard Matheson

“Emily Post mincing through the graveyard. Etiquette for Young Vampires.”

— Richard Matheson

I can get pissed off very easily.

— Richard Matheson

“Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.”

— Richard Matheson

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

— Richard Matheson

“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands…

— Richard Matheson

“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

“She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her.…

— Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

— Richard Matheson

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.

— Richard Matheson

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach…

— Richard Matheson

“... And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the…

— Richard Matheson

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

— Richard Matheson

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when…

— Richard Matheson

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations.…

— Richard Matheson

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that…

— Richard Matheson

“Stewardess!” She came running down the aisle, her face tightened with alarm. When she saw the look on his face, she stiffened…

— Richard Matheson