The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

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.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them