She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

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.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.