Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.