Mark Frost

“I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.”

“In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified.”

“Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.”

“It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.”

“I went to high school in Minnesota.”

“There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.”

“I'm a realist about how the networks work.”

“Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.”

“There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.”

“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.”

“I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.”

“Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.”

“It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.”

“As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.”

“We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?”

“I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.”

“I don't normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I'm not a binge-watcher by nature myself.”

“People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'”

“At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?”

“If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.”