"We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man."

“A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.”

“If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.”

“It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.”

Source : "Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams on How Arya's Quest Is About More Than Vengeance". Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.

“The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

“Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.”

“To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.”

“Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.”

“If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.”