There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

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.

When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.

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.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

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

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.