Rod Serling Quotes

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

~ Rod Serling

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

~ Rod Serling

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

~ Rod Serling

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.

~ Rod Serling

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

~ Rod Serling

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

~ Rod Serling

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

~ Rod Serling

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

~ Rod Serling

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

~ Rod Serling

I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That’s all. That’s all I wanted to tell you.

~ Rod Serling

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

~ Rod Serling

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

~ Rod Serling

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

~ Rod Serling

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

~ Rod Serling