Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

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.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Every flight begins with a fall.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.