The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

- Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

- Bernard Malamud

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and…

- Bernard Malamud

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

- Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

- Bernard Malamud

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 Malamud

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

- Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

- Bernard Malamud

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

- Bernard Malamud