...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

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.

Action is traction.

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.