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

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.