Joseph Heller
US novelist (1923 - )
Catch 22
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!
We was robbed!
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.
All marriages are mixed marriages.