My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.