Grief Is The Price Of Victory.

I Have Come To Believe That Holy Boredom Is Good And Sufficient Reason For The Invention Of Free Will.

. . . Is To Attempt Seeing Truth Without Knowing Falsehood. It Is The Attempt To See The Light Without Knowing Darkness. It Cannot Be.

Words Are Such Gross Machinery, So Primitive And Ambiguous.

A Leader, You See, Is One Of The Things That Distinguishes A Mob From A People.

When I Was Writing Dune There Was No Room In My Mind For Concerns About The Book's Success Or Failure. I Was Concerned Only With The Writing. Six Years Of Research Had Preceded The Day I Sat Down To Put The Story Together, And The Interweaving Of The Many Plot Layers I Had Planned Required A Degree Of Concentration I Had Never Before Experienced.