Quote

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

Joseph Heller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Heller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 1
Died: 1999
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Misgivings
Wouldn
Strong
Live
Without

More quotes by Joseph Heller

Image
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller
Image
A man's head is his castle.
Joseph Heller
Image
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Joseph Heller
Image
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
Image
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
Image
I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.
Joseph Heller
Image
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
Joseph Heller
Image
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
Joseph Heller
Image
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy
Joseph Heller
Image
The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.
Joseph Heller
Image
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.
Joseph Heller
Image
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller
Image
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
Joseph Heller
Image
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.
Joseph Heller
Image
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
Joseph Heller
Image
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
Joseph Heller
Image
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
Joseph Heller
Image
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
Joseph Heller
Image
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
Joseph Heller
Image
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
Joseph Heller