You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not….

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors..

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan..

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house o….

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant..

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with f….

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

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again….

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children….

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man..

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history..

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for my….

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. She….

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played ….

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by trib….

Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work.….

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is….

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned tha….

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, d….

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour..

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork..