Sellswords put gold before honor.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.