The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.