You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

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

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

Life is a train, get on board.