No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

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.

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