Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.