Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.