All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

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.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.