Joseph Heller

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 1964 age 41

   CreditSex and the Single Girlscreenwriter

3. 1999 age 76

   Died

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  Photo:Photograph: Thomas R. KoenigesPublic domain

• When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I think in this country and in Australia too there's a late intolerance in most religions, an intolerance, a part that could easily become persecutions. <br> We have some ultra-orthodox Jewish sects here in New York and I fear them as much as I would fear a Nazi organisation.

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. 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. 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. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. <BR> "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. <BR> "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

  Joseph Heller, CC BY-SA 4.0