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

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and that he is taking a different approach to Afghanistan.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

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

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

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.