More from Joseph Heller

  1. The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.
  2. How dispiriting I find it, even after all my personal triumphs, that we must grow up and grow sad, that we must age, weaken, and in time go…
  3. If character is destiny, the good are damned.
  4. No one who ever wants praise will be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfil…
  5. 'Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?' 'There is no heaven. There is no hell.' 'There is no heaven? There is no hell?' 'That's all in your mind.'
  6. He who steals my purse steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor ind…
  7. I am arrogant enough to wish I were modest as he and modest enough to know that this is arrogance.
  8. Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it- to believe in God and get no sign that He's there.

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