I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

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.

We are born in the ocean of love and we love the ocean and her touch so much.

Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world

You must try to forget all you have learned, ' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect.

If you pick something you actually enjoy doing, you have fun every day of your life.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.