Joseph Heller Quotes
-
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
-
...Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
-
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
-
Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.
-
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy
-
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
-
There was only one catch and that was catch 22
-
I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
-
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
-
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
-
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
-
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
-
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
-
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
-
Let someone else get killed!
-
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
-
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.
-
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-
I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.
-
But how can one be warm alone?
-
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
-
I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
-
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
-
Insanity is contagious.