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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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