Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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!"

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.