I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

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.

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

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.