A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

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.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.