Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

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

God bless Dunkin' Donuts.

The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.