There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

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.

I do not desire evil, Garan had said to her once, but it seems to me that to stand idle while evil is being done is no virtue either.

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.

I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works,