George R.R. Martin Quotes

“There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.”

“But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.”

“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

“Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.”

“There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.”

“I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.”

“Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.”

“Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.”

“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.”

“Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.”