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
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.
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
There was only one catch and that was catch 22
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as ""Catch-22"" I'm tempted to reply, ""Who has?
Orr 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.
Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Some men are born Mediocre men, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them