The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

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

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

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