My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

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

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

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.