a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

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

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.