No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

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.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Every man must choose what they want to do with their time to avoid regret in the future.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.