People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own thing and th….

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me..

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a stu….

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a bur….

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

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of th….

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it..

I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situatio….

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me..

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S..

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence beca….

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay….

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it sque….

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the s….

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft..

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable..

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin..

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader..

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan ….