I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

Laughter is poison to fear.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.