You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it..

Blood is a powerful thing.

There is a way to be good again..

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.….

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 ….

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..

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have an….

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been ….

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the su….

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar..

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhe….

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to liv….

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….

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….

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

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends ….

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons..

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks..

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create..

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up..