The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLERThe enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLERIt doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERLet’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLERSome men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
JOSEPH HELLERWell, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
JOSEPH HELLERHe knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLERYou know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLERIn the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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 HELLERWhat do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was never without misery, and never without hope.
JOSEPH HELLERAnything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERRise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLER