Joseph Heller Quotes

Clădiri şi forme fără contur zburau pe lînga el fără zgomot, purtate parcă implacabil pe suprafaţa unui val puternic, atemporal.

Yossarian wrinkled his forehead with quizzical amusement. You won’t marry me because I’m crazy, and you say I’m crazy because I want to marry you? Is that right?

I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.Oh, there’s a point, all right, Dunbar assured him.Is there? What’s the...

I’d be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn’t sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right...

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity;...

Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it (the war), and it was not his ambition to be among them. To die or not to die, that was the question, and Clevinger grew limp tryi...

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.'Yossarian knew wh...

In a way the C.I.D. man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on.Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line we...

Now, where were we? Read me back the last line. ‘Read me back the last line,’ read back the corporal who could take shorthand.

Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, tűnődött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat előtt, és ő mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.

His goading remained gentle. Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think...

Sure, there’s a catch, Doc Daneeka replied. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.

It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition. Instead, of being liked, he was dead, a...

Don’t be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that’s not forbidden by law, and there’s no law against lying to you.

His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money t...

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

You just came out of the hospital ten days ago, Milo reminded him reprovingly. You can’t keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don’t like. No, the best thing to do is fly the...

Now, where were we? Read me back the last line.''Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take shorthand.'Not my last line, stupid!' the colonel shouted. 'Somebody else's.''Read m...