The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

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.

We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me.