Our Politics Is Very Masculine, Very Aggressive,

The Child Had Indeed Shut Up But All The Questions That Had Accumulated On His Tongue Circulated In His Mouth, Moved Through The Passages Of His Nose And Climbed Up From There To Tickle Into His Teardrop Ducts, So In His Moss Green Pupils, Curious, Insistent, Accusing Sparks Of Questions Continued To Light Up And Fade Away Like Fireflies Flitting About On Summer Nights.

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.

Eternity Does Not Mean Infinite Time, But Simply Timelessness

We're Stuck. We're Stuck Between The East And The West. Between The Past And The Future. On The One Hand There Are The Secular Modernists, So Proud Of The Regime They Constructed, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The Army And Half Of The State On Their Side. On The Other Hand There Are The Conventional Traditionalist, So Infatuated With The Ottoman Past, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The General Public And The Remaining Half Of The State On Their Side.

Loneliness And Solitude Are Two Different Things. When You Are Lonely, It Is Easy To Delude Yourself Into Believing That You Are On The Right Path. Solitude Is Better For Us, As It Means Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely. But Eventually It Is Best To Find A Person, The Person Who Will Be Your Mirror. Remember, Only In Another Person's Heart Can You Truly See Yourself And The Presence Of God Within You.