Backteria and Other Improbable Tales Quotes

“„Another day. Another collection of wracking hours.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“He hungered for peace and there was no peace. Terror was his only food.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“What is the atomic bomb?” queried Leslie, “But a mass of tortured Elements suffering complete nervous breakdown?”
I shuddered at the thought.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“„My teenage years were unacceptable. An unhappy array of failed female liaisons and repetitive skin disorders.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“As he stepped into the sunlight, he heard the seals barking loudly. They must have an audience. Slick glory seekers. Whiskered prima donnas.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“„No amount of reasonable threats prevailed.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

“The pheasants looked around in bobhead curiosity.
Your pigeon cousins walk in freedom. You sit in the cage in glorious Technicolor.”
― Richard Matheson, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales