Mustafa Eric

“In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“at the word level, Turkish is a dream come true for a computer speech synthesizer. (Negroponte 1995: 145)”
― Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

“On the theme of the bewilderment of ordinary people when confronted by speakers of Ottoman, there is the tale of the sarrkli hoca (the turbanned cleric), who, wishing to buy some mutton, addresses a butcher's boy with the words Ty sagird-i l:assab, lahm-i ganeniden bitki ve bilvexin band 'ita cyler misin?' (0 apprentice of the butcher, wilt thou bestow on me one oke avoirdupois of ovine flesh?). The perplexed boy can only reply 'Amin!' (Amen!).”
― Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

“Oh you only think you know all I know. I don’t even know what all I know. Half the time I just make it up, and it still turns out to be true! We learned that trick in the fifties. Tomorrow,”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition