As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, …

- Myla Goldberg

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

- Myla Goldberg

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them…

- Myla Goldberg

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

- Myla Goldberg

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something…

- Myla Goldberg

At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the …

- Myla Goldberg

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

- Myla Goldberg

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

- Myla Goldberg