I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

I have so many just precious, fond memories that revolve around food, and that's why I have such a passion for it.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.