I think he loved us equally, but differently.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

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.