If You Want To Experience Eternal Illumination,

Identity Politics Divides Us. Fiction Connects. One Is Interested In Sweeping Generalizations. The Other, In Nuances. One Draws Boundaries. The Other Recognizes No Frontiers. Identity Politics Is Made Of Solid Bricks. Fiction Is Flowing Water.

Turkey In General Became Too Involved With What Is Happening In Egypt And In Syria. Some Politicians With Neo-ottoman Dreams Developed This Idea Of Being A Major Player In The Middle East, Which Hasn't Gone As Expected.

Isn't Connecting People To Distant Lands And Culture One Of The Strengths Of Good Literature?

God Is A Meticulous Clockmaker. So Precise Is His Order That Everything On Earth Happens In Its Own Time. Neither A Minute Late Nor A Minute Early. And For Everyone Without Exception, The Clock Works Accurately. For Each There Is A Time To Love And A Time To Die.

Believers Are Each Other's Mirrors.