I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?