I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet…

“My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.”

— Brian Herbert

“To quiet the storms in your life, say a word of prayer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or…

— Frank Herbert

“Fragmentation is the natural destiny of all power.”

— Frank Herbert

“Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s first sequel to Dune, was published in 1969. In that book, he flipped over what he called the “myth of…

— Frank Herbert

“I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of…

— Frank Herbert

“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely…

— Frank Herbert

“My son displays a general garment and you claim it’s cut to your fit?” Jessica asked. “What a fascinating revelation.”

— Frank Herbert

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only…

— Frank Herbert

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected…

— Frank Herbert

From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was…

— Virginia Madsen

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

— Lorraine Toussaint

“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,…

— Alice McDermott

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

— Fred Armisen