Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."