No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.