Bernard Malamud Giving Quotations

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.