I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

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

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.