I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

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 forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.