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

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

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.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.