"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death." - Bernard Malamud

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

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

If I may, I would at this point urge young writers not to be too much concerned with the vagaries of the marketplace. Not everyone can make a first-rate living as a writer, but a writer who is serious and responsible about his work, and life, will probably find a way to earn a decent living, if he or she writes well. A good writer will be strengthened by his good writing at a time, let us say, of the resurgence of ignorance in our culture. I think I have been saying that the writer must never compromise with what is best in him in a world defined as free.