I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

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.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

You are not responsible for anything that happens to you as a child but you are 100% responsible for your own healing.

The beauty of words that heals my soul.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.