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

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.