Anne C. Serling
@anneserling.bsky.social
Animal lover, writer, never Trumper
"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct."
~Rod Serling
~Rod Serling
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct."
~Rod Serling
~Rod Serling
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
-Rod Serling
"Planet of the Apes."
-Rod Serling
"Planet of the Apes."
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
-Rod Serling
"Planet of the Apes."
-Rod Serling
"Planet of the Apes."
"I don't knock my country for what it is - I knock it because I share the dream of so many of us as to what it can be."
~Rod Serling 1970
~Rod Serling 1970
October 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"I don't knock my country for what it is - I knock it because I share the dream of so many of us as to what it can be."
~Rod Serling 1970
~Rod Serling 1970
“It may be a rotten thing to lick a man’s boots, but it’s a lot worse to be the man whose boots have to be licked.”
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS
September 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“It may be a rotten thing to lick a man’s boots, but it’s a lot worse to be the man whose boots have to be licked.”
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS
The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
-Rod Serling
-Rod Serling
August 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
-Rod Serling
-Rod Serling
“Fame is short-lived. One year after this show ( The Twilight Zone) goes off the air, they’ll never remember who I am. And I don’t care a bit. My place is as a writer.”
July 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Fame is short-lived. One year after this show ( The Twilight Zone) goes off the air, they’ll never remember who I am. And I don’t care a bit. My place is as a writer.”
To those wondering what my dad would have to say about Trump, here’s a clue…
July 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
To those wondering what my dad would have to say about Trump, here’s a clue…
Anne Serling
@AnneSerling
"If you stick good men into a mob, take away their names, faces, identity, take away their responsibility, they're no longer good men."
Rod Serling: "The Loner"
@AnneSerling
"If you stick good men into a mob, take away their names, faces, identity, take away their responsibility, they're no longer good men."
Rod Serling: "The Loner"
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Anne Serling
@AnneSerling
"If you stick good men into a mob, take away their names, faces, identity, take away their responsibility, they're no longer good men."
Rod Serling: "The Loner"
@AnneSerling
"If you stick good men into a mob, take away their names, faces, identity, take away their responsibility, they're no longer good men."
Rod Serling: "The Loner"
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and to the ones we miss…
June 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and to the ones we miss…
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” ―
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
June 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” ―
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
"Portrait of a bush-league Führer...like some goose-stepping predecessors, he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon, he calls it faith, strength, truth."
Rod Serling
Rod Serling
May 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Portrait of a bush-league Führer...like some goose-stepping predecessors, he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon, he calls it faith, strength, truth."
Rod Serling
Rod Serling
Like so many, my dad was plagued by PTSD and nightmares after the war. In college he switched his major to language and literature because, as he said, "I needed to get it out of my gut...write it down. This is the way it began for me."
Image: Rod Serling 1943 & 1975
Image: Rod Serling 1943 & 1975
May 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Like so many, my dad was plagued by PTSD and nightmares after the war. In college he switched his major to language and literature because, as he said, "I needed to get it out of my gut...write it down. This is the way it began for me."
Image: Rod Serling 1943 & 1975
Image: Rod Serling 1943 & 1975
Dad's May 13,1972 commencement address to Ithaca College graduates:
May 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Dad's May 13,1972 commencement address to Ithaca College graduates:
“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 children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.”
- Rod Serling
- Rod Serling
May 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“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 children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.”
- Rod Serling
- Rod Serling