Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

Law of Attraction teaches that what you focus on you will attract, so as you focus on what everybody else is doing or not doing, then you will get more of that.

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

I am always on the women's side.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.