A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later..

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread ma….

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!.

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?.

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most diffic….

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of br….

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want t….

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath..

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone'….

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus h….

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in ….

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

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege..

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hu….

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I ….

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names..

some stories don't need telling.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency..

I will follow you to the ends of the world..