Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.
Elif SafakI believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
Elif SafakI see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.
Elif Safak