I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that 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 because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

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

lovely soul sweet

If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

Richard Matheson

opponents creative writing

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

Richard Matheson

sleep morning men

When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.

Richard Matheson

divorce writing thinking

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

Richard Matheson

able ifs seems

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Richard Matheson

horror dream world

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

Richard Matheson

dream book thinking

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Richard Matheson

normalcy majority men

That which you believe becomes your world

Richard Matheson

believe world

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now.

Richard Matheson

our-world men civilization

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

Richard Matheson

mess would-be world

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

Richard Matheson

earth path

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

Richard Matheson

feeling-sad despair sorrow

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

Richard Matheson

office typewriters morning

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

Richard Matheson

buried analysts body

How long did it take for a past to die?

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dies long past

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.

Richard Matheson

strong dog beautiful

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.

Richard Matheson

couple reading people

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

Richard Matheson

suicide spirit thinking

To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

Richard Matheson

growing-up philosophy book