I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
Frank HerbertThink 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.
Frank HerbertAtrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
Frank HerbertYou can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
Frank HerbertWhen 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.
Frank Herbert