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

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.