I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

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.