How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

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 universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!

You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.