I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

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

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

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

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 a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.

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

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