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

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

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

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.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.