And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.