Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.