Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Life is a train, get on board.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.