Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.