As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

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.

Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.

Do you have some sort of anti-derangement medication? If so, you might wish to take it.

One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.

Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

I could never be afraid of you.