Love is a sacred silence.

Happiness is laughing together.

Now everyone is prouder and poorer

‎The past is always an invented land.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

Painting taught literature to describe.

Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

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

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

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

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

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

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

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

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

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

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

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

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

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

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

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.

It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

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

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

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