I honestly think people are tired of reading about me.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.

Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility.

I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field?

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

If it doesn't seem like I'm working hard sometimes, that's someone else's problem.

There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

Bravery doesn't always mean that you have to be fearless. No one in this world fears nothing, so if you are fearless, then you are no one.

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.