Joseph Heller Quotes

"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
-Joseph Heller

"Live forever or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
-Joseph Heller

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."
-Joseph Heller

"I intend to live forever or die trying."
-Joseph Heller

"It is neither necessary or possible to educate someone who never questions anything."
-Joseph Heller

"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
-Joseph Heller

"Rise above principal and do what's right."
-Joseph Heller

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
-Joseph Heller

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller

"So convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again."
-Joseph Heller

"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
-Joseph Heller

"Procastination is the thief of time."
-Joseph Heller