I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.

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

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 Area.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

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

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.