I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

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.

No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.