Quotes from Joseph Heller

You just came out of the hospital ten days ago," Milo reminded him reprovingly. "You can't keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don't like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It's our duty.

Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, t?nÅ'dött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat elÅ'tt, és Å' mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.

The steady ticking of a watch in a quiet room crashed like torture against his unshielded brain.

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22....

The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.

Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a person fell and was trampled to death.

Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.

Se trezi clipind din cauza unei uÈ™oare dureri de cap È™i când deschise ochii v?zu o lume clocotind într-un haos în care totul era în ordinea fireasc?.

If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.

Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran. The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

It's a small wound. All we have to do is stop the bleeding, clean it out and put a few stitches in." "But I've never had a chance to operate before. Which one is the scalpel? Is this one the scalpel?

Stia totul despre literatura, in afara de modul in care se putea bucura de ea.

Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.

The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. —SIDNEY HOOK

He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

That's my trouble, you know," Yossarian mused sympathetically, folding his arms. "Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.

Elhatározta, hogy örökké fog élni, vagy belehal a próbálkozásba, és számára a bevetésnek egyetlen célja volt, éspedig az, hogy élve térjen vissza.

Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap—it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right—and

Mindenki arra tanított bennünket, hogy magasrend? dolgok után vágyakozzunk.

Azzal, hogy elfut a problémák elÅ'l, még nem oldja meg Å'ket.