None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.