A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.