'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from. Richard Matheson
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet. Richard Matheson
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges. Richard Matheson
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. Richard Matheson
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field. Richard Matheson
I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am. Henry Bromell
It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.Henry Bromell
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. Doris Lessing
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30. Stan Musial
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it. Stan Musial
When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats. Stan Musial
I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate. Stan Musial
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball. Stan Musial
