Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

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

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

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.