yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.