You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.