When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories

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.

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

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

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.