My Unhappiness Protects Me From Life.

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 Believe Strongly In An Author's Moral Responsibility. But His First Obligation Is To Write Good Books.

I Am Nothing But A Corpse Now, A Body At The Bottom Of A Well.

I Am Proud To Be A Turk, And To Write In Turkish About Turkey - And To Have Been Translated Into About 40 Languages. But I Don't Want To Politicize Things By Dramatizing Them.

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.