“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”
“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
Joseph Heller
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
Joseph Heller
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
Joseph Heller
“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”
Joseph Heller
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller