They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second a man can live a lifetime. He can suffer and die, and who’s to say which is the greater reality: the one we know or the one in dreams, between heaven, the sky, the earth - in the Twilight Zone. —Rod Serling

To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. —Rod Serling

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. —Rod Serling

Ideas come from the earth. They come from every human experience that you either witness or have heard about. Translated in your brain, in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air… Like little, tiny items of ozone. That’s the easiest thing on earth - to come up with an idea. Then the second thing is the hardest thing on earth - to put it down. —Rod Serling talks about Writing for Television

Love has its own particular point of view. It sees everything larger than life. Nothing is too ornate, too fanciful, too dramatic. Love demands the theatrical, and then transfigures it. It turns the grotesque into the lovely, as a child does. With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can’t see anything at all. We can search forever, and never find. —The Twilight Zone - Season 4 Episode 17 : Passage On The Lady Anne (via bunchofbabyducks)

It’s death that gives meaning to life. People love a rose because they know it will soon be gone. Nobody ever loved a stone. —The Twilight Zone (via allmyambiguity)