Halleck's words came back to Paul: "Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood." Perhaps that's it, Paul thought. I'll mourn my father later... when there's time. — Dune
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. - WERNHER VON BRAUN — Gravity's Rainbow
The sun is still below the horizon. The day feels like rain, but for now the air is uncommonly clear. — Gravity's Rainbow
He takes some time lighting a cigarette. He won't hear the thing come in. It travels faster than the speed of sound. The first news you get of it is the blast. Then, if you're still around, you hear the sound of it coming in. What if it should hit exactly-ahh, no—for a split second you'd have to feel the very point, with the terrible mass above, strike the top of the skull. ... Pirate hunches his shoulders, bearing his bananas down the corkscrew ladder. — Gravity's Rainbow
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Dune
What do you despise? By this are you truly known. — Dune