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.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

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?

There are no men like me. There's only me

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.