Joseph Heller Quotes
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It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
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Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Rise above principal and do what's right.
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Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
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If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?
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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.
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Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
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I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.
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The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?
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I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
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Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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...Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.