We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

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

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

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.