about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Sad stories make good books

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir