Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
quote by Joseph Heller
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
