There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.