Quotes from Joseph Heller
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
- Joseph Heller
Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out
- Joseph Heller
I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.
- Joseph Heller
Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. Help him, help him! Help who?
- Joseph Heller
Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.
- Joseph Heller
We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.
- Joseph Heller
Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.
- 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
Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.
- Joseph Heller
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
- Joseph Heller
With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.
- Joseph Heller
General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.
- Joseph Heller