People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

some stories don't need telling

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.