One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

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

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

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've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

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