The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

The man who never reads lives only one.