The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.