He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared….

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians ….

After all, life is not a Hindi movie..

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope..

On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts..

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin an….

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out..

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was….

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth..

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….

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away un….

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read..

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, ….

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

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

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..

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

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..

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood..

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason..

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next..