I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

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

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.