That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Have character, don't be one.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.