Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

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

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

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