I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

Responsibility has more salvation in it than religion can bestow.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.