Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

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

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.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

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

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

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.