Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

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.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

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.