“Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)”

Katniss and Peeta (p. 388; closing words of the main text)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real."

11 August 2017 text to mother reported on 4 December 2018 by CBS 19 https://web.archive.org/web/20181205123640/https:/www.cbs19news.com/content/news/Text-messages-calls-allowed-as-evidence-in-Fields-trial-501893992.html

Europe in the Spring, ch. 12 (1940)

The Ides of April

"Conversations in Port Townsend", interview with Tim O'Reilly, 1983. Reprinted in The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction (1987), edited by Tim O'Reilly
General sources
Context: What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

The 5,000 Year Leap (1981)

Source: Seeds of Rebellion

Source: Raising Steam