It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

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.

To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.

As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.

If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws.

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Survival must come before civilization.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.