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.

The sport was right in the center of these changing social dynamics. It was a game invented by blue-collar people in Scotland but adopted by the elite in England and America. All of those conflicts were coming into the open. I was amazed to find out how much was played out in golf as well.

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

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

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.

The whole mythological side of ‘Twin Peaks’ was really down to me, and I’ve always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century – W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.

I’ve always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

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

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

My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!

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

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn’t occurred to them recently.

I think you can safely say that the mystery in ‘Twin Peaks’ as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.

I wasn’t overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

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.

I don’t think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.

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

I don’t think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can’t just live in the present.

In a business that’s driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public for a brief time doesn’t constitute a trend.

A lot of people always look back at ‘Twin Peaks’ and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

‘Hill St.’ was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn’t what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.

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.

The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of ‘Twin Peaks’ after a 25-year absence.