His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

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.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.