I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.