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

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….

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….

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….

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself..

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

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of pu….

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..

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

I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that c….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an aut….

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

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

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..

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….

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….