Quotes About Richard Matheson

Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.

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 "horror" had become obsolete. A surfeiting of terror made terror a cliché. To Robert Neville the situation merely existed as natural fact. It had no adjectives.

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 the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments?

At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.

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

what felt like skin the texture of cooked mushroom.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

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 about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.