“There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.”

“In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who...”

“I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was...”

“I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical thing...”

“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, t...”

“In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints o...”

“Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love s...”

“My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.”

“Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.”

“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”

“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murde...”

“I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.”