Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, ….

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside..

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips..

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult..

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself..

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you..

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the othe….

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history..

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry..

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and tha….

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one..

The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered….

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task….

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an….

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community..

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, a….

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent..

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for ….

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice ….

President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had t….