These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

Only the great power of love can make you great.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Life is in infinite motion

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

And Clare, always Clare.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.