If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.