Quote

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

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
Right
Everyone
Work
Difficult
Way
Death
Canal
Else
Canals
Seems
Root
Look
Roots
Come
Couldn
Looks
Upon

More quotes by 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
Image
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
Joseph Heller
Image
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
Joseph Heller
Image
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
Image
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
Joseph Heller
Image
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.
Joseph Heller
Image
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Joseph Heller
Image
What do you do when it rains? The captain answered frankly. I get wet.
Joseph Heller
Image
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
Joseph Heller
Image
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Joseph Heller
Image
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
Joseph Heller
Image
Everybody is as unstable as water.
Joseph Heller
Image
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Joseph Heller
Image
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
Joseph Heller
Image
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
Joseph Heller
Image
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
Joseph Heller
Image
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
Joseph Heller
Image
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
Image
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
Joseph Heller
Image
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
Joseph Heller