The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.