Perhaps It Took A Stranger To Make

Patience Does Not Mean To Passively Endure. It Means To Be Farsighted Enough To Trust The End Result Of A Process. What Does Patience Mean? It Means To Look At The Thorn And See The Rose, To Look At The Night And See The Dawn. Impatience Means To Be So Shortsighted As To Not Be Able To See The Outcome. The Lovers Of God Never Run Out Of Patience, For They Know That Time Is Needed For The Crescent Moon To Become Full.

Because Time Is A Drop In The Ocean, And You Cannot Measure Off One Drop Against Another To See Which One Is Bigger, Which One Is Smaller.

When I Am Writing Political Op-eds, I Do Think Carefully About The Impact Of My Words. When I Am Writing Fiction, It's A Different Story. In My Fiction I Am More Reckless. I Don't Care About The Real World Until I Am Done With The Book.

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.

I Believe In Optimism Of The Will, Pessimism Of The Intellect. But My Hope Is The People, The Society, Which Is Ahead Of The Government.