My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

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

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

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.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.