I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.
Personally, to have people recognize your work is amazing. I love meeting fans and talking to them, and that happens quite a bit now, which is really cool. . . . I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say hi, which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.