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

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color..

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

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious..

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the clos….

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said..

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

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. M….

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….

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting..

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place..

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work..

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off….

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction..

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first nove….

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crum….

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches an….

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….

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her..

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection..

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