86 Quotes by Robert Bloch

Once you began speculation about that, once you admited to yourself that you didn’t really know how another person’s mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission – anything was possible.

Magic – that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead.

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

It’s all right”, he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. “It’s all right, believe me.

Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane.

All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it.

He winced at the realization, then took a deep breath. This was no time to be self-conscious or self-critical. One had to be prctical. Very practical, very careful, very calm.