I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my rel….

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them..

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting..

As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common pe….

I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have….

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated..

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely..

Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows sleep or pee or roll around on….

But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was….

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about..

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing..

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone..

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of h….

There's never a false note in a Berg novel..

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too..

Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think ma….

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the….

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that..

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a m….

There's not enough of me left over..

There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, ….