Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
JOSEPH HELLERLet’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
-
-
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLER -
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLER -
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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 character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLER -
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
JOSEPH HELLER -
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLER -
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER