Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
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.
When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.
They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.
Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.