143 Quotes by Bernard Malamud

If you don’t hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

We didn’t starve, but we didn’t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.

Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?

Since I can’t be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn’t mind being wealthy.

Keep in mind, Yakov Shepsovitch, that if your life is without value, so is mine. If the law does not protect you, it will not, in the end, protect me. Therefore I dare not fail you, and that is what causes me anxiety – that I must not fail you.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something...

His blood changed to falling snow.

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.