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.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.

I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

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.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

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