The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

In a male-dominated environment, things are very macho, and you can't show weakness.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

Reading is good, action is better.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

The world begins with every kiss.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

The gods favor the bold.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization