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.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

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

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

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

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.