“Sure there’s a catch,’ Doc Daneeka replied. ‘Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.’ There” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it (the war), and it was not his ambition… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“You’ve been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn’t a chance of winning. But… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.’ There was only one catch and that was Catch-22,… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it—lived forever, perhaps. Only a fraction of his countrymen… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously,"… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
