"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."

"It is a steadfast truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy."