Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

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.

The universe does not work by our rules

Grief is the price of victory.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.