Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football..

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends..

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.

Happiness is laughing together..

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental..

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Is….

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west..

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time..

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..

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to ….

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible..

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 t….

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city..

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can….

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with..

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European ….

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries..

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize t….

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well..

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted..