We all dream of things we cannot have.

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?