No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are selfish women. Most people are a combination of the same.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.