All Joseph Heller Quotes
- History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… Arab
- There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present. Always Know
- If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second. Advice
- Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.) Endurable
- In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Accidental
- 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… Amounts
- 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 of combat duty… Anyone
- I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my… Aged
- A man's head is his castle. Castle
- I can't start writing until I have a closing line. Closing
- 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… Align
- 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… Accept
- Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Achieve
- There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he… Catch
- When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' Catch
- Every writer I know has trouble writing. Every Writer
- He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Attempt
- He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Enjoy
- He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Effort
- I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. All
- When I grow up I want to be a little boy. Boy
- But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence… All
- Insanity is contagious. Contagious
- That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. Agreed
- The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Country