There Are Worse Ways To Die Than

Nothing Burns Like The Cold. But Only For A While. Then It Gets Inside You And Starts To Fill You Up, And After A While You Don't Have The Strength To Fight It.

Swords Have Been My Life, Not Books. But Every Child Knows That The Targaryens Have Always Danced Too Close To Madness. Your Father Was Not The First. King Jaehaerys Once Told Me That Madness And Greatness Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin. Every Time A New Targaryen Is Born, He Said, The Gods Toss The Coin In The Air And The World Holds Its Breath To See How It Will Land.

Even The Sky Was Grey. Grey And Grey And Greyer. The Whole World Grey, Everywhere You Look, Everything Grey Except The Eyes Of The Bride. The Eyes Of The Bride Were Brown. Big And Brown And Full Of Fear.

The Sun Will Soon Be Setting, And Corpses Make Poor Company By Night. These Were Dark And Dangerous Men, Alive. I Doubt That Death Will Have Improved Them.

I Have Done A Lot Of Work In Hollywood Myself. I Worked In Television For Roughly 10 Years, From The Mid-'80s To Mid-'90s. And I Was On Staff At A Couple Of Shows. I Did Some Feature Films, Including Originals And Adaptations.