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

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

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

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]