A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

I do have a girl that sets the moon and stars.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living

New York vintage is too expensive!

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.