The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
I am not the kind of person I want to be.
Is evolution just another name for God?
My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
Law is the ultimate science.
A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
Money to a writer is time to write.
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"
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