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

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.