Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

- George R. R. Martin

No man should live longer than his teeth.

- George R. R. Martin

Some doors are best left closed.

- George R. R. Martin

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.

- George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

- George R. R. Martin

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

- George R. R. Martin

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

- George R. R. Martin

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

- George R. R. Martin

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

- George R. R. Martin