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

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

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.