I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

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

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.