these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

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.

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.