Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Trust is earned. Like gold.

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

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