They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

There is a way to be good again.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.