Grief Is The Price Of Victory.

The Most Terrifying Things In The Universe Came From Human Minds.

Growth Is Limited By That Necessity Which Is Present In The Least Amount.

The Young Reed Dies So Easily. Beginnings Are Times Of Great Peril.

Control The Coinage And The Courts — Let The Rabble Have The Rest.

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.