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

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy…

- Rod Serling

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

- Rod Serling

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

- Rod Serling

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the…

- Rod Serling

I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infreq…

- Rod Serling

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

- Rod Serling