Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil’s deceit

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

The perfect shorts are always important.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

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

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.