Insanity is contagious.
JOSEPH HELLERInsanity is contagious.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
JOSEPH HELLERThere was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
JOSEPH HELLERWhile none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
JOSEPH HELLERYou’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 HELLERWell, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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 HELLERSuccess 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 HELLERPeace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
JOSEPH HELLERThe laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
JOSEPH HELLERIt doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERFrankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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 HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
JOSEPH HELLER