Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

The only game. The game of thrones.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Nothing burns like the cold.

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.