Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

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.

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

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.