More from Joseph Heller

  1. How ironic the difference between me and my young son Absalom, between his soliciting the soundest means of overtaking me and having my lif…
  2. The last thing any sensible human being should want is immortality. As it is, life lasts too long for most of us.
  3. Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it- to believe in God and get no sign that He's there.
  4. I'm not even sure we really had that much need for God as much as we did seem to have a need to believe in Him.
  5. 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…
  6. All is vanity, you know, ALL in the long run is but vanity and vexation of spirit.
  7. 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…
  8. 'If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?'

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