But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie..

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift..

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we ….

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost m….

For you, a thousand times over.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it..

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I….

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me..

If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; ….

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding….

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her..

You say their stories, it is gift they give you..

You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you..

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , an….

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah i….

I guess some stories do not need telling..

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every ti….

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun..

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads)..

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things..

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they….