I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

“Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the wor…”

“As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a…”

“Arabaları gözlerken hep böyle onulmaz bir duygu, sanki çok uzaklardaymış, deniz…”

“Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some purs…”