“Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do? Then I ask myself, 'How well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?'”
— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com