Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

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 all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world...

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.

ONE of the things we can learn from the devil is his perseverance in pursuing us. HE NEVER gives up.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.