Quotes from Joseph Heller

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.