The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

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.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

We've known for years that the president of the United States is a cyberbully, a misogynist who has this thing about women and blood.

The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.

It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.

For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.