If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.

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

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.