sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

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

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

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

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.

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.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.