How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed..

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space..

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy..

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously….

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with….

Love is a sacred silence..

If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also b….

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by e….

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak o….

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historic….

What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit hou….

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beau….

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civili….

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation..

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this..

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..

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use….

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or offi….

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only p….

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplacea….