[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

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'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

When you open an Apple product it's like a religious experience.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.