Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
cells principles conflict
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
funny-love giving joy
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
emotion deny internals
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
law justice mistress
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
summer heart dark
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.
power wealth mask
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
taken use victim
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
initiative
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
pain humans human-beings
A human being can stand any amount of pain.
genius madness method
Madness in method, that's genius
accepting
What you cannot control, you must accept.
killers rabbits kind
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
time doors vision
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
well-known wells known
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.