[b]Joseph Heller
Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?[/b]
For the Vietnam war, you have to double it. At least.
I really do admire you a bit. You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
The new yin and yang.
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts…
Of course he’s just paraphrasing the Bible.
[b]What the hell are you getting so upset about? he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. I thought you didn’t believe in God.
I don’t, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don’t believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He’s not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.[/b]
Let’s file this one under, “covering all the bases”.
He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.
You know, as a last resort.
Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me…Maybe people have told me, and I’m too senile to remember.
That does narrow it down.