Quotes from Mark Frost

My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club champion. Whenever I was visiting them, I got a double barrel of golf lore. I guess it was always in my blood.

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

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 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.

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

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.

We've learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

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.

There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

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

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

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.

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.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

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.

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?