mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph HellerWhen I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
Joseph HellerI couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
Joseph HellerSo many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?
Joseph Heller