Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love..

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity..

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority ….

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be f….

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning..

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that ….

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight..

The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly….

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released..

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing thei….

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free..

As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's ho….

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..

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having prob….

When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoma….

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is mak….

We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. ….

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a n….

The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism..

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse..