There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

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

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