“Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”

“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”

“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

“Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”

“Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint”

“Your Majesty, Durzo said gravely. A man of your statures cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears. - Durzo Blint”

“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing...”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”