Quotes About Frank Herbert

Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

Thufir, I want you to examine your own emotional involvement in this. The natural human's an animal without logic. Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness. You're the embodiment of logic—a Mentat. Yet, your problem solutions are concepts that, in a very real sense, are projected outside yourself, there to be studied and rolled around, examined from all sides.

The absence of a thing," the Baron said, "this can be as deadly as the presence. The absence of air, eh? The absence of water? The absence of anything else we're addicted to.

The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft. Brian Herbert Seattle, Washington January 11, 2008

that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: "Please list your next of kin.

I have been a stranger in a strange land,'" Halleck quoted.

Iakin Nefud. Guard corporal. Nefud was addicted to semuta, the drug-music combination that played itself in the deepest consciousness

On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.

They were a magnet in the void; evil and all the sad misuses of power collected around them.

seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.

So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos.

they were non-thinkers, attaching themselves to any fancied power for the identity which this gave them. Without a reflection from her they were empty. Thus, they were dangerous.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion,' Leto said. 'Not to speak of its importance in philosophy.Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

Lady Jessica ordered you to differentiate between the wolf and the dog, between ze'ed and ke'leb. By her definition a wolf is someone with power who misuses that power. However, between wolf and dog there is a dawn period when you cannot distinguish between them.

There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

What . . . does he plan?" "The Golden Path. He'll explain it to you later.

He said that you were the ultimate artist at probing the soul, your own soul first.

That witch mother of his is giving him the deep training, certainly.