Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

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

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

I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

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.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

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