All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

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

The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

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