My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.