What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

House of Sand and Fog,

House of Sand and Fog … I suffer from migraines and when she curled up in the bathtub… I felt her pain. Also, I’ve met people from Iran and felt connected to their culture in...

Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress,...

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again?...

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you...

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.