If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.