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.

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.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

True confidence comes from realizing the view.