Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York (1923). He's best known for his novel Catch-22 (1961), about a World War II bomber pilot, Yossarian, who believes that the world is out to get him killed. The entire German army wants to shoot him down, and the men that are supposedly his countrymen keep sending him out on bombing missions, where he is likely to get shot down by those Germans. He spends all his time trying to get himself declared insane so he can stop flying bombing missions, but there is a regulation called Catch-22, which says that if you want out of combat duty you can't be crazy.
Heller wrote, "[A pilot] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
*Every writer I know has trouble writing.
*Procastination is the thief of time.
*I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
*Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
*He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
*The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
*When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"”
*There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
*When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller quote
*Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
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