A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

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.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.