Joseph Heller Quotes

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All

All I know is a door into the dark

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.