I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

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 fire is a flame.

I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?"

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.