Author War Novelist Humor satirist The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. - Joseph Heller
Dreams Nothing Want I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. - Joseph Heller
Saying When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller
War People Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. - Joseph Heller
War But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. - Joseph Heller
Country I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy. - Joseph Heller
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer