You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. - Frank Herbert

Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: “He gives moisture to the dead.” It was a gift to the shadow world — tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.