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

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

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

And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284