I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

A Lannister always pays his debts.