The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

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.

Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times.

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.