We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
Bernard MalamudSome men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
Bernard MalamudReader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
Bernard MalamudIf you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
Bernard Malamud