Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it..

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity..

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or t….

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections..

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brush….

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let t….

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When ….

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries..

And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab..

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the ….

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep..

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story..

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts..

Life is a train, get on board..

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." Lail….

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good..

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Lail….

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hi….

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the m….

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem..

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for mysel….