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

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

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

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

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.