Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.