My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value 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.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.)

In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

You are who you are, and in the end, If you don't believe it then no one will.