People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

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

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.

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.