Joseph Heller

A man's head is his castle.

— Joseph Heller

“I yearn for you tragically.”

— Joseph Heller

Insanity is contagious.

— Joseph Heller

Let someone else get killed!

— Joseph Heller

“I see everything twice!”

— Joseph Heller

“Tu sei pazzo!”

— Joseph Heller

“You will hurt your foot.”

— Joseph Heller

And anything worth dying for

— Joseph Heller

“I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.”

— Joseph Heller

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

— Joseph Heller

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

— Joseph Heller

“That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.”

— Joseph Heller

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

— Joseph Heller

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

— Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

— Joseph Heller

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

— Joseph Heller

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

— Joseph Heller

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

— Joseph Heller

“I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.”

— Joseph Heller

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

— Joseph Heller

“War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

— Joseph Heller

“Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”

— Joseph Heller

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

— Joseph Heller

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who…

— Joseph Heller

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral…

— Joseph Heller

“The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and…

— Joseph Heller

“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that…

— Joseph Heller

“Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father…

— Joseph Heller

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and…

— Joseph Heller

“Nem is lenne normális, ha sohasem félne. Még a legbátrabb emberek is tapasztalják a félelmet. A harcban a legnagyobb feladattal akkor kerülünk…

— Joseph Heller

“he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts,…

— Joseph Heller

“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

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence…

— Joseph Heller

“That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front…

— Joseph Heller

“He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. He drew solace and sedation from her…

— Joseph Heller

“His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every…

— Joseph Heller

“Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending…

— Joseph Heller

“They [the dying in hospitals] did not blow up in mid-air like Kraft or the dead man in Yossarian's tent, or freeze…

— Joseph Heller

“You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty…

— Joseph Heller