Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

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

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

My story begins with a question.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.