You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use that pretentious word, to writing anything. You're writing in the shadow of all the people that have gone before and, in a way, you're having a dialogue with them. As someone who's read J.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and all the great fantasists before, this is almost my answer to them.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.