Backteria and Other Improbable Tales Quotes

“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

“„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

“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

“„No amount of reasonable threats prevailed.”
― 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

“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

“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