Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
Bernard MalamudChildren were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
Bernard MalamudOf course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
Bernard Malamud