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.

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.

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

Love is a sacred silence.

If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock. -Clary Fray to Jace Wayland

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.