It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow