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

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.