Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.