‎the Past Is Always An Invented Land.

Sometimes I Would See Them Not As Mementos Of The Blissful Hours But As The Tangible Precious Debris Of The Storm Raging In My Soul.

I Do Not Believe In A Personal Connection To God; That's Where It Gets Transcendental.

When Turkey Began Approaching The Eu, I Wasn't The Only One Who Worried That The Dark Stain In Turkey's History - Or Rather The History Of The Ottoman Empire - Could Become A Problem One Day. In Other Words, What Happened To The Armenians In World War I. That's Why I Couldn't Leave The Issue Untouched.

Over Time, I Have Come To See The Work Of Literature Less As Narrating The World Than "seeing The World With Words." From The Moment He Begins To Use Words Like Colors In A Painting, A Writer Can Begin To See How Wondrous And Surprising The World Is, And He Breaks The Bones Of Language To Find His Own Voice. For This He Needs Paper, A Pen, And The Optimism Of A Child Looking At The World For The First Time.

Ka Thought It Strangely Depressing That The Suicide Girls Had Had To Struggle To Find A Private Moment To Kill Themselves. Even After Swallowing Their Pills, Even As They Lay Quietly Dying, They’d Had To Share Their Rooms With Others.