Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

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

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.