“Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!”

If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!

To be a ‘believer’ does not make you superior to others; but to be a ‘humanist’ does make it so!

Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don’t expect the ground beneath you to move forward!

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

A struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identity As for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from.

The Kurds know that they won’t achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries.

Everything reaches us filtered through culture.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely.

I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability).

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.