Rod Serling: "No logic, no reason, no explanation. Just a prolonged nightmare. In which fear, loneliness, and and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows."

Clown: "Highly imaginative, incredibly inventive."

Rod Serling: "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

Doctor: "You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates. We can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort. We can pump oxygen in and waste material out. But there's one thing we can't simulate that's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that's one thing we haven't licked yet."

Dan Hollis: "You monster, you. You dirty little monster. You murderer. You think about me. Go ahead, Anthony. You think bad thoughts about me. And maybe some man in this room, some man with guts, somebody who's so sick to death of living in a place like this, and is willing to take a chance, will sneak up behind you and lay something heavy across your skull, and end this once and for all..."

Anthony Fremont: "You're a bad man! You're a very bad man!"

Dan Hollis: "You think that. Go ahead, Anthony. I'm a very bad man! Keep thinking that! Somebody sneak up behind him! Somebody end this now while he's thinking about me! Won't somebody take a lamp or a bottle or something and END THIS?"

Narrator: The place is here, the time is now, and the journey into the shadows that we're about to watch could be our journey.

(First line of the series.)
Rod Serling: (narrating)"The place is here, the time is now, and the journey into the shadows that we're about to watch could be our journey."

(Last line of the 1950s+60s version.)
Rod Seling: "They found a secret place, in the twilight zone."

Rod Serling: "You unlock this door with the key of imagination."

Patty: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The rest of that book, 'To Serve Man', it's... it's a cookbook!"

David Ellington: "You must believe."

IF YOU TAKE 12 ASPIRIN AND SHUT YOUR EYES TIGHT YOU MIGHT CALL IT BEAUTIFUL.

BUT IN THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, SON IT'S A WRECK.

Henry Bemis: "And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now. There's all the time I need, and all
the time I want. Time, time, time. Ah! there's time enough at last."
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Robert Sloan: Maybe when you go back, Martin, you'll find that there are merry-go-rounds and band concerts where you are. Maybe you haven't been looking in the right place. You've been looking behind you, Martin. Try looking ahead.