418 Quotes by Joseph Heller

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

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

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God.""I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.