It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

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.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

But it feels good just getting it out—letting someone else know how much hatred I’m harboring.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.