Joseph Heller Quotes

There were reviews that were good, a good many that were mixed, and there were reviews that were bad, very bad, almost venomously spiteful, one might be tempted to say (and I am the one that might say it).

I used to joke—and it wasn’t much of an exaggeration— that a story I would mail to the New Yorker in the morning would be back with its concise, slighting rejection slip in the afternoon mail that same day.

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

And a man who lay with a beast, said the Lord, would surely die. And if he doesn’t lie with a beast, I would have countered, he won’t die?

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?