"We were at Du Par's, the coffee shop at the corner of Laurel Canyon and Ventura and all of a sudden, Mark Frost and I had this image of a body wrapped in plastic washing up on the shore of a lake." - David Lynch

"The murder of Laura Palmer was the center of the story, the thing around which all the show's other elements revolved – like a sun in a little solar system. It was not supposed to get solved. The idea was for it to recede a bit into the background, and the foreground would be that week's show. But the mystery of the death of Laura Palmer would stay alive. And it's true: As soon as that was over, it was basically the end. There were a couple of moments later when a wind of that mystery – a wind from that other world – would come blowing back in, but it just wasn't the same, and it couldn't be the same. I loved Twin Peaks, but after that, it kind of drifted for me." - David Lynch

"I liked the idea of a continuing story that sucks you into a deeper world. But Laura Palmer's killer was never meant to be discovered. The mystery was meant to float permanently above the action. Once it got solved, something beautiful was lost." - David Lynch

"Twin Peaks is about entering a world, falling in love with it, working within it, and letting it talk to you. To me, if it doesn't have honesty, and you don't obey those rules, then it won't work, it won't feel good, and the audience won't stay with it. That's also true of painting, or any movie." - David Lynch

"There is no ending. It's part of a continuing story. The problem is the continuing story is in my head and in Mark's head.... I visit it in my mind, TWIN PEAKS. It's frustrating in a way because there are many clues and many threads that have yet to be followed. But it's kind of nice having them out there, because they have not been solved, and because there's threads to dream on." - David Lynch

"I happened to be in love with the world of Twin Peaks and the characters that exist there." - David Lynch

"I love the world of Twin Peaks. It has its own rules, and its mood, and its way of being...." - David Lynch

"I love the world of Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is a land of mystery." - David Lynch

" [I found myself] falling in love with the place. A small town surrounded by deep woods...It's almost like a fairy tale. I had to go back in." (on FWWM) - David Lynch