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.

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

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

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

‎The past is always an invented land.

When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.