Quotes About Author

Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

My childhood was quite turbulent and there was sometimes great insecurity about money.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Turkey initiated true multiparty elections in 1950 to join NATO. As a requirement of its membership, NATO can and should demand that Turkey honor its commitment to the alliance's democratic norms.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'

Ground turkey is fantastic in a comforting classic - meatloaf.

I play for the Turkish National Team. I live there.

The problems in the Russian novel are quite similar to the problems of Turkish nationalism and Turkish culture, which was something that I grew up thinking didn't affect me very much because my parents didn't really talk about it.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in this studio, I don't need anymore!' We really debate everything - and it's a good debate. That's why the games turn out well: it's not me - it's not this guy - it's the collective. Together, we figure out what we want.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.

'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

Relative to Google or the kind of turnaround we're seeing, we do care about profitability. That is our goal in every one of the areas where we invest.

What I have more of a problem accepting is the criticism of former players turned journalists, who - some of them - spread their hatred.