Quote: I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: 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. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: When I grow up I want to be a little boy. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Every writer I know has trouble writing. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: When I grow up I want to be a little boy. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: 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. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: I can't start writing until I have a closing line. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: 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. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? [Joseph Heller]
Quote: There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane an [Joseph Heller]
Quote: We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. [Joseph Heller]
Quote: I'm gonna live forever, or die trying. [Joseph Heller]