Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.