I stayed sober for this?

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.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.