Quite a Quote: The True Throne

"I said repeatedly the Iron Throne is huge. It towers over the room like a great beast. And it's ugly. It's asymmetric. It's put together by blacksmiths not by craftsmen and experts in furniture manufacturing. You have to walk the iron steps, and when a king sits on it he's like 10 feet above everybody else ... He's in this raised position looking down on everyone."

-- George R.R. Martin on the Iron Throne as portrayed in his Game of Thrones book series (quoted in The Business Insider)