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.

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

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

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.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.