I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

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.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

There's plenty of anger among Muslims in the world right now. How can you have more?

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.