Mark Frost Quotes

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, Ajay whispered.

Everyone assumed that Norma and Ed would marry first, but Big Ed - displaying a tendency to hesitate at crucial personal moments that never showed up on the football field - neglected to pop the question before embarking for Fort Dix. Norma hadn't yet released that reticence was as much a piece of Big Ed as his inability to articulate his reasons for it. Sweet natured Norma, who had stuttered as a child and suffered from low self esteem, simply assumed she wasn't good enough.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #16: WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, DON'T HANG AROUND.

He wants us to think for ourselves, without fear of ridicule or judgment. He wants us to make up our minds and ignore what the rest of the world is saying. Pay no attention to fads or fashions, and listen, always, to the voice of your innermost self. Learning who you are is your primary task. There are no mistakes in life, as far as Emerson's concerned, only lessons. Once you master one lesson, you move on to the next. And the only place you can learn is right now. In the everlasting present.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #5: HEALING TAKES MUCH LONGER THAN YOU THINK. THE BIGGEST SCARS YOU CARRY AREN'T THE ONES YOU CAN SEE.

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

Getting hung up on 'how' is just the stupid part of your brain throwing a tantrum because it feels left out.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.

Lyle has that same footlocker in his room," said Nick. "And, dude, the

The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won't get back in the bottle.

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

Little bitty thing? Dude, you didn't see her go straight-up psycho. She's like a hella honey badger.

We all want answers to the big questions.

everything else out of his mind the way

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who looked like a kid lining up for the teacups at Disneyland. "You're sure we have to go down through the cathedral to get to the hospital?" said Elise.

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #10: WHEN VISITING A FOREIGN LAND, IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO OBSERVE AND ABIDE BY THE CUSTOMS OF THE LOCAL CULTURE. UNLESS THEY'RE TRYING TO EAT YOU.

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?

Embrace paradox. Look for patterns.
Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet.
Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell

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.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

I'm the white rabbit, drawing you closer to the rabbit hole.

Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.

No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

Metaphors are beautiful ways of speaking about the truth. So are facts.

The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.

Look, dudes, we didn't come this far down the rabbit hole to stop on the one-yard line in the middle of like Nazi headquarters," said Nick. "Did we?" "No, but if you tried, you could probably mix a few more metaphors," said Elise.

IF YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS FROM YOUR FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power -- for good or ill -- like that, it's just another piece of information. But a real mystery can't be solved, not completely. It's always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can't know the heart of it, not really. That's what gives it value: It can't be cracked, it's bigger than you and me, bigger than everything we know.

Actually, science has determined that a flipped coin is not strictly a fifty-fifty proposition," said Ajay. "Surprisingly, the coin will return to whichever side you're holding faceup in your hand before it is flipped, exactly fifty-one percent of the time.

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay

If this is a dream, I'm begging you, don't ever let them wake me.

#24 YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

A core fundamental of human existence is wonder - and its analogue is fear. You can't have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

For instance, there is no light without darkness - and this troubles many of us - but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this.

I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.

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What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.