I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.