After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

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 drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.