Mark Frost Quotes & Sayings

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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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. — Mark Frost

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

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

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

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen. — Mark Frost

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? — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

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

#41: SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY'RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING. — Mark Frost

Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns. — Mark Frost

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

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

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

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed. — Mark Frost

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

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #11: IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DO IT. IT ONLY MATTERS THAT YOU DO IT. — Mark Frost

He light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand. — Mark Frost

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! — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

West," said Coach Jericho.
"That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly.
"That's him," said Nick, pointing.
"That's helpful," said Jericho. — Mark Frost

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

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, Ajay whispered. — Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time. — Mark Frost

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #8: DO THE RIGHT THING, ALWAYS, AND RISK THE CONSEQUENCES. — Mark Frost

This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not. — Mark Frost

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Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. 'God.' 'Science.' Meaning. — Mark Frost

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

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? — Mark Frost

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY. — Mark Frost

Sometimes an owl is just an owl. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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 — Mark Frost

We all want answers to the big questions. — Mark Frost

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

Why am I telling you this?" he went on. "A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power--for good or for 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. Those tight-ass suits can keep their secrets, they don't add up to anything. This deep in the game, pal, I'll take mystery every time. — Mark Frost

Diane, I've never asked you this before, and as a general rule I try never to mix my private and public life, but I would consider a great honor if you would consider having dinner with me. If this in any way crosses over a line that we have long ago set for our relationship, I will understand. If not, how does eight o'clock sound? — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

Will wolfed down his sandwich, drank half his water, and went to work examining the boxes. He discovered that all of them had dates scrawled on the side, so he cranked up to his highest speed, motored around the room rearranging them, and had them neatly arranged in chronological order in less than twenty minutes. Three equal rows, forty boxes in each, lined up in the center of the room. Some were sealed; most were open. Their weight varied greatly; some were packed solid and heavy with books and ledgers, while others contained nothing but rolled-up maps. — Mark Frost

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called ... YouTwit-face. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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

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. — Mark Frost

Jones's faithful old friend and chronicler O. B. Keeler, now fifty-five and still covering the sport for the Atlanta Journal, was on hand to witness his victory and interviewed Byron in the locker room afterward. The unfailingly literate Keeler mentioned that Byron's back nine charge had put him in mind of Lord Byron's poem about Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His headline the next day read: LORD BYRON WINS MASTERS. — Mark Frost

We have two families in life. The one we're born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give its blood for us. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost

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

Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt. — Mark Frost

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. — Mark Frost

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

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. — Mark Frost