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I don’t believe in the "supernatural," I believe in the "supernormal."
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
Introduction to The Path (1999)
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.
I Am Legend (1954)
What you don’t understand yet is that we’re going to stay alive. We’ve found a way to do that and we’re going to set up society again slowly but surely.
I Am Legend (1954)
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed.
I Am Legend (1954)
Be this the final entry
In mankind’s book of psalms
He knit his shroud with atoms
And dug his grave with bombs.
The Shores of Space (1957)
The memory of you shall not perish with your untimely sepulture. You are, dear friend, not so much out of the game as playing on another field.
The Shores of Space (1957)
I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I’ve inspired a few people one way or another.
Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson (2004)
Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.
I Am Legend (1954)
They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
I Am Legend (1954)
I don’t know why I thought that would help but I called him. I’d have called anyone just to have another mind to help. Parents are useless beings when they’re afraid for their children.
The Shores of Space (1957)
Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.
I Am Legend (1954)
Heaven would never be heaven without you.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own when self-pretense is no longer possible?
What Dreams May Come (1978)
It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.
Introduction to The Path (1999)
Something black and of the night had come crawling out of the Middle Ages. Something with no framework or credulity, something that had been consigned, fact and figure, to the pages of imaginative literature.
I Am Legend (1954)
What does that motto on the wall of your office say? That which you believe becomes your world.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
I can get pissed off very easily.
You never know, he thought. You just never know. You drift along, year after year, presuming certain values to be fixed; like being able to drive on a public thoroughfare without somebody trying to murder you.
Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death. ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.