Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.