Richard Matheson

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

— Richard Matheson

“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”

— Richard Matheson

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

— Richard Matheson

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

— Richard Matheson

“Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the…

— 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

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was…

— Richard Matheson

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang…

— 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

“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

“…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as…

— Richard Matheson

“There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because…

— 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

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

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

— Richard Matheson

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.…

— Richard Matheson

“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

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

— 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

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

— Richard Matheson

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.…

— 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

“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

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

— Richard Matheson

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

— Richard Matheson

“The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.” Thank you, Dr. Van Helsing, he thought, putting down…

— Richard Matheson

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it…

— 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

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

— Richard Matheson

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of…

— Richard Matheson

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a…

— 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

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

— Richard Matheson

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with…

— Richard Matheson

If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of…

— 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

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

“Chris:I forgive you. Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband? Chris: For being so wonderful a guy would choose hell…

— Richard Matheson

…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

“Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night,…

— Richard Matheson