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

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.