I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.