The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

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.

Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy.

We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.