Quotes from Rod Serling

I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.