The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

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.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet