219 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.