“One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, t...” — Orhan Pamuk Quote

“One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.”

“The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.”

“From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.”

“I'm constantly busy.”

“The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.”

“Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.”