Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly….

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives..

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be….

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a pers….

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile..

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular l….

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful..

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

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver.

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

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if sh….

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies..

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

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

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

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think..

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me..

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting..

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose..

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything..