The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.