The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?