In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.