Quotes by : Joseph Heller

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even....

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call....

Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions....

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.....

It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly....

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions....

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private....

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.