Quote

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence? Yes, sir, it has. Then why do you do it? To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

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
Hasn
Fears
Sexual
Pursuit
Assuage
Merely
Promiscuous
Women
Impotence
Ever
Occurred
Trying
Subconscious

More quotes by 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
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller
Image
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
Image
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.
Joseph Heller
Image
All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
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
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
Joseph Heller
Image
If character is destiny, the good are damned.
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
Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
Joseph Heller
Image
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Joseph Heller
Image
Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.
Joseph Heller
Image
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
Joseph Heller
Image
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
Joseph Heller
Image
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.
Joseph Heller
Image
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
Joseph Heller
Image
It is the anonymous they, the enigmatic they who are in charge. Who is they? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even they themselves.
Joseph Heller
Image
where are the snowdens of yesteryear?
Joseph Heller
Image
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
Joseph Heller
Image
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Joseph Heller