A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

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.

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

Law is the ultimate science.