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If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive. — Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say. — Rod Serling

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete — Rod Serling

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being. — Rod Serling

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done. — 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

How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? — Rod Serling

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

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence. — Rod Serling

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble. — Rod Serling

A basic "must" for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental. — 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. — Rod Serling

You unlock the door with the key of imagination. — Rod Serling

I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human. — Mark Millar

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

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody. — Rod Serling

Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown. — Rod Serling

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written. — Rod Serling

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. — Rod Serling

Seeing does not always believe. — Rod Serling

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

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling

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

Infinitely more taboos, on television. — Rod Serling

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all. — Rod Serling

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

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. — Rod Serling

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. — Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else. — 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

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know. — Rod Serling

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

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date. — Rod Serling

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. — Rod Serling

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

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it. — Rod Serling

I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped. — Rod Serling

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes. — Rod Serling

Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit. — Rod Serling

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. — Rod Serling

Imagination ... its limits are only those of the mind itself. — Rod Serling

Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything. — Rod Serling

Beasley was a little man whose face looked like an X ray of an ulcer. — Rod Serling

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find. — Rod Serling

Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others. — Guillermo Del Toro

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants. — Rod Serling

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not. — Rod Serling

Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it. — Rod Serling

You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie! — Rod Serling

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized — Rod Serling

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

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. — Rod Serling

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it. — Rod Serling

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything. — Rod Serling

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. — Rod Serling

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling

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

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. — Rod Serling

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. — Rod Serling

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

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully. — Rod Serling

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

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write. — Rod Serling

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. — Rod Serling

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer. — Rod Serling

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing! — Rod Serling

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

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling