“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgo...” — Orhan Pamuk Quote

“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”

“Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.”

“I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.”

“I write a world where everyone is partly right.”

“I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.”

“The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.”

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”

“If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.”

“We held each other for a time in that hideaway, that unexpected sanctuary, while the city smoldered and the world went on changing without us.”

“I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.”

“Sigo sin poder adivinar el futuro, pero ahora puedo ver la vida desde otro lugar y sé que solo por eso todo este tiempo ha valido la pena.”

“Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.”