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

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

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.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

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.