Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
Joseph Hellerwas an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon, to refer to a vicious circle, wherein an absurd, no-win, contradictory choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is a bureaucratic, or legal impossibility for artificial reasons, and hence, then regardless of the chosen option, a paradoxically negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
Joseph Heller quotes about
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Let someone else get killed!
Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?
Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
And anything worth dying for
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
There was only one catch and that was catch 22
The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.
If character is destiny, the good are damned.