Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 1, 1923 Death: December 12, 1999
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on..
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.….
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it..
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody..
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail..
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them..
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to..
The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it..
Rise above principal and do what's right..
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison ….
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into ….
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoi….
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them..
Insanity is contagious..
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align….
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental..
When I grow up I want to be a little boy..
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything..
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 i….
Every writer I know has trouble writing..