George R.R. Martin

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

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.

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.