I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

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.

Reed kissed her softly. “Live for now. Find your way. We can still be together. Forever. Don’t think about the unknown and what could happen when we don’t even know what is happening.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.