Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

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

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.