You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

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

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.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.