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.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

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.

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

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

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.

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.