Agent Dale Cooper Quotes

The whole universe is one bright pearl, and there is no need to understand it.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

I do not know why I shot the bird. At the moment I squeezed the trigger it seemed that the only two things in the world were the crow and myself. And now there is just me.

To believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.

All I know is that I do not believe in anything anymore and that I must find something to believe in or I will cease to be.

I wish I was older. And that I knew more than I do.

I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.

The only way love ever affected death was in making it more painful.

My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.

These appear to be random events, unrelated at this time, so, naturally they bear watching.

Wanting something to be different will not make it so.

I am sure of nothing except that to believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.

(...) if a person, as one theory goes, is chosen to live in a particular time for one specific reason, then why am I here now? What moment in history is my life destined to intersect with? Or has it already happened, and I just didn't understand that that was my moment?

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?

I need her still, and I don't know what to do. She was just here.