I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.