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.

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.

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

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light

Hope is assurance of the promise..

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.