It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERIt doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLERAnything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERI think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen 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 HELLERWhat do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLERI don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERPeace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
JOSEPH HELLERBut that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
JOSEPH HELLERNever quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLERI’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLERHe knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was never without misery, and never without hope.
JOSEPH HELLERShe was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
JOSEPH HELLERFrankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLERFor war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLER