In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

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

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.