219 Quotes by Rod Serling

I’d rather go along with this sense of illusion that I’m a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that’s preordained.

I’m an affluent screenwriter and all that – I’m a known screenwriter, but I’m not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that’s all.

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being. He does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can’t allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn’t cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot – we inhale from our Bartlett’s.

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative – and woman’s – to create their own particular and private hell.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you’re not counting pages, you don’t really know what the hell the page count is.

We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.