My unhappiness protects me from life.

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.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.

It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.