Fear cuts deeper than swords.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinchingher painfully. And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont