The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

You can not stop you from being who you are.