A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligen….

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….

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….

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….

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it..

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed..

‎The past is always an invented land..

The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, her….

Love is a sacred silence..

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and ….

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

Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow..

I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunn….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy..

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….

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….