Sacrifice Is Never Easy Or It Is

...the Man Who Passes The Sentence Should Swing The Sword." "...a Ruler Who Hides Behind Paid Executioners Soon Forgets What Death Is.

You Are Grown So Very Great Now, Yet The Higher A Man Climbs The Farther He Has To Fall.

That Was The Way Of This Cold World, Where Men Fished The Sea And Dug In The Ground And Died, Whilst Women Brought Forth Short-lived Children From Beds Of Blood And Pain.

I Heard A Lannister Always Pays His Debts." "oh, Every Penny....but Never A Groat More. You'll Get The Meal You Bargained For, But It Won't Be Sauced With Gratitude, And In The End It Will Not Nourish You.

I Think My Very Earliest Stories Were All Intellectual Exercises And I Was Writing From Experiences I Had Never Had About Characters Who Were About An Inch Deep.