Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

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.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

Keep starting until you finish.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.