Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.