Main article: Catch-22 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. As quoted in 'Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas' at CNN (13 December 1999).Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society? Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy.In an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 'Joseph Heller - Closing Time' (1998) by Ramona Koval.We have some ultra-orthodox Jewish sects here in New York and I fear them as much as I would fear a Nazi organisation. 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. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments.As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1997) edited by Peter Kemp, p.When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'.Quotes Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. 1.7 Attributed in posthumous publications.

1.6 Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000).

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