I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

People in New York love having roof parties.