Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.