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 so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.