All my memories are poisoned.

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.

Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

We each have 24 hours in a given day

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.