I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.