Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

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

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.