You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.