Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

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

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.