The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.