Orhan Pamuk

"The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devils ruse."

"I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

"Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief."

"What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand."

"Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity."

"For if a lovers face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home."

"When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, youll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favorite promontories."

"A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”"

"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."

"Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?"

"Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?"

"T feel like the Devil not because I’ve murdered two men, but because my portrait has been made in this fashion."