There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ...
JOSEPH HELLER Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...
JOSEPH HELLER I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
JOSEPH HELLER Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of...
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon th...
JOSEPH HELLER He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
JOSEPH HELLER -You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...
JOSEPH HELLER Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLER The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
JOSEPH HELLER I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slo...
JOSEPH HELLER Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he coul...
JOSEPH HELLER There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if ...
JOSEPH HELLER The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by ...
JOSEPH HELLER Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it...
JOSEPH HELLER We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
JOSEPH HELLER When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornicati...
JOSEPH HELLER There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they w...
JOSEPH HELLER Live forever or die in the attempt.
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon th...
JOSEPH HELLER Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to priva...
JOSEPH HELLER Rise above principal and do what's right.
JOSEPH HELLER The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
JOSEPH HELLER I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
JOSEPH HELLER I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
JOSEPH HELLER The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-...
JOSEPH HELLER A large part of the public sentiment was my own, ... They saw an absurd quality, a mendacious qualit...
JOSEPH HELLER The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them
JOSEPH HELLER My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the id...
JOSEPH HELLER When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who...
JOSEPH HELLER But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated chil...
JOSEPH HELLER They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainl...
JOSEPH HELLER The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLER Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardi...
JOSEPH HELLER [They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anyt...
JOSEPH HELLER Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - fo...
JOSEPH HELLER Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Eve...
JOSEPH HELLER They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?”
“Who else will go?
JOSEPH HELLER So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and...
JOSEPH HELLER Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve me...
JOSEPH HELLER I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative a...
JOSEPH HELLER Niet nikoho, kým by som bol radšej než sám sebou - aj keď sa v skutočnosti nemám rád a dokon...
JOSEPH HELLER And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous ...
JOSEPH HELLER Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.
JOSEPH HELLER That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference.
JOSEPH HELLER I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of l...
JOSEPH HELLER It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along eve...
JOSEPH HELLER I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to d...
JOSEPH HELLER I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the...
JOSEPH HELLER I get the willies when I see closed doors.
JOSEPH HELLER Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me....
JOSEPH HELLER i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrus...
JOSEPH HELLER Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; ca...
JOSEPH HELLER There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety ...
JOSEPH HELLER Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no lo...
JOSEPH HELLER Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they ...
JOSEPH HELLER It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
JOSEPH HELLER Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him an...
JOSEPH HELLER Procastination is the thief of time.
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born Mediocre men, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upo...
JOSEPH HELLER Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them...
JOSEPH HELLER Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornicatio...
JOSEPH HELLER There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major c...
JOSEPH HELLER Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
JOSEPH HELLER When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempte...
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon th...
JOSEPH HELLER Why are they going to disappear him?'
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even ...
JOSEPH HELLER It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into ...
JOSEPH HELLER What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnat...
JOSEPH HELLER ...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLER He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
JOSEPH HELLER Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of...
JOSEPH HELLER Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pr...
JOSEPH HELLER Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nate...
JOSEPH HELLER Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state wer...
JOSEPH HELLER What do you do when it rains?"
The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLER [Catch22] specified that a concern for one's safety . . . was the process of a rational mind. Orr wa...
JOSEPH HELLER ...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest,” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
JOSEPH HELLER Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
JOSEPH HELLER Nately was instantly up in arms again. "There is nothing so absurd about risking your life for your ...
JOSEPH HELLER All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
JOSEPH HELLER Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands w...
JOSEPH HELLER Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include toot...
JOSEPH HELLER Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon the...
JOSEPH HELLER The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from...
JOSEPH HELLER It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love wit...
JOSEPH HELLER You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get y...
JOSEPH HELLER Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.
JERRY HELLER To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like...
RANDEE HELLER I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided...
RANDEE HELLER I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
RANDEE HELLER It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
RANDEE HELLER I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going...
RANDEE HELLER Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'...
RANDEE HELLER Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed...
RANDEE HELLER I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on '...
RANDEE HELLER Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
RANDEE HELLER You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the b...
RANDEE HELLER I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they had...
JERRY HELLER There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclus...
ROBERT HELLER The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals...
ROBERT HELLER Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER Fear is excitement without breath.
ROBERT HELLER Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough
ROBERT HELLER I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
J. HELLER Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
ANDREW HELLER Today they kind of turned that performance around a little bit, ... That's a good sign of things to ...
BEN HELLER Being a senior and having the most experience on the team, he kind of showed what you need to do, .....
BEN HELLER Prairie Winds is a great test of golf. The back nine is a tough track and I think it kind of beat up...
BEN HELLER We're looking to try and get our fourth and fifth guys to pick it up a little with our conference me...
BEN HELLER Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon...
PETER HELLER The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if th...
PETER HELLER The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead nev...
PETER HELLER I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up c...
PETER HELLER Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.
PETER HELLER Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.
PETER HELLER Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.
PETER HELLER Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiti...
PETER HELLER You can't metabolize the loss. It is in the cells of your face, your chest, behind the eyes, in the ...
PETER HELLER I want to be two people at once. One runs away.
PETER HELLER Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begi...
PETER HELLER He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything ...
PETER HELLER We are bound by the secrets we share.
ZOë HELLER Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup a...
PETER HELLER It's the great secret Caesar knew and that Octavian (Caesar's successor, the future emperor Augustus...
BRUNO HELLER Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same ... ther...
BRUNO HELLER (He) must have been a very strange and brilliant man. He ... created a new way of operating a societ...
BRUNO HELLER It was a moment in history that's pivotal in western history. If things hadn't turned out the way th...
BRUNO HELLER The novel aspect is that it's about everyday life in a time of great historical import.
BRUNO HELLER Rome from street level. (It's) Rome from the point of view of ordinary people caught up in the extra...
BRUNO HELLER Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the ...
BRUNO HELLER You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.
BRUNO HELLER He's a known character. We designed it so that when you see Caesar, it's through other people's eyes...
BRUNO HELLER It's the transformation of a republic into an empire. I think America is dealing with that issue rig...
BRUNO HELLER I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most...
JERRY HELLER I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse ac...
PETER HELLER I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.
PETER HELLER I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn...
PETER HELLER A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the...
PETER HELLER Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think a...
PETER HELLER There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm ...
PETER HELLER I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.
DEAN HELLER Using that as an excuse is not true.
SAMANTHA HELLER I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.
JERRY HELLER If you live in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and you have to mow your lawn, heat is a problem. This has very gen...
CRAIG HELLER Eazy was an exceptional human being. He was a visionary. He was very Machiavellian, he understood po...
JERRY HELLER I don't want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Gef...
JERRY HELLER I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was...
JERRY HELLER This has been the best year of swimming for me. I've really enjoyed it.
MARK HELLER Anytime you have fertilizer around metal, rust is going to be an issue. The way I see it, the plante...
BLAKE HELLER It is an opportunity for us to have a window into the space.
ANDY HELLER The fact of it is you get to sit and soak things in. It appeals to interests students have, rather t...
ANDY HELLER I don't know if I can stress enough how cool Dr. Moskowitz is. He's a very laid back guy and he make...
ANDY HELLER My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ...
PETER HELLER The Dallas Morning News has been expanding our lifestyle-themed products and services to increase th...
BERNIE HELLER This level of use offers very appealing visibility for advertisers who want to integrate their messa...
BERNIE HELLER The CD-ROM format of Hollywood Previews gives advertisers an opportunity to leverage the The Dallas ...
BERNIE HELLER In our case, we like a longer season variety. The index showed that with a starter, we'd likely get ...
BLAKE HELLER I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
PETER HELLER In today's data-rich and litigious society, nothing is more important, or more difficult than safegu...
ANDREW HELLER Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.
PETER HELLER Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
ROBERT HELLER The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclu...
ROBERT HELLER N.W.A were the audio-documentarians of their time. They were trying to shock people with the violenc...
JERRY HELLER Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
ROBERT HELLER I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street ...
BRUNO HELLER Rise above principle and do what's right
WALTER HELLER Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.
SUZANNE HELLER Counting the time it took to stop and fill up the boxes, we were easily tying up five to six hours a...
BLAKE HELLER You hear people saying starter will give you a yield benefit no matter how high your fertility. The ...
BLAKE HELLER I just cringe to think what the average tourist would think of our downtown after visiting St. Louis...
CRAIG HELLER Because IT people can see so much, it is their responsibility to influence investment priorities, no...
MARTHA HELLER In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a va...
PETER HELLER Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my pre...
PETER HELLER Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be...
PETER HELLER They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn’t they breed them to live longe...
PETER HELLER Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?
PETER HELLER All the choices we can't see. Every moment.
PETER HELLER I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleep...
PETER HELLER I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we a...
PETER HELLER Sometimes back then, fishing with Jasper up the Sulphur, I hit my limit. I mean it felt my heart mig...
PETER HELLER So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profo...
PETER HELLER There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and w...
PETER HELLER It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely,...
PETER HELLER To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
PETER HELLER How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. S...
PETER HELLER How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.
PETER HELLER We have traveled.
Now you will be the path
I will walk I will walk
Over you.
PETER HELLER Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes n...
PETER HELLER Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations....
PETER HELLER Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the ple...
ZOë HELLER There's been a lot of upsets. I'm seeing a lot of good seniors getting beat out that aren't even pla...
CRAIG HELLER I'm not against nightclubs. The question is, is this the right place for a club the scale of this on...
CRAIG HELLER I feel particularly lucky because I've got as professional and sympathetic a team as I could have,
ZOE HELLER