Orhan Pamuk

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

“The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”

“Life is a gift of God, of the devil, of fate... It is still a gift.”

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.”

“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”

“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the time, but to remind us that we have a limited time.”

“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”

“The writer's secret is not what he tells you, but what he doesn't tell you.”

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”

“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in a town, you can be surrounded by people and still feel alone.”

“The past is not a story that ends; it is a landscape that we are constantly walking through.”

“To lose your memory is to lose yourself.”

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.”

“Books, which we mistake for solitary companions, are really substitutes for friends.”