Joseph Heller Quotes

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott.

My character in 'The Caller' is very normal.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Mediocrity is obscurity.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

I perfected the art of being uninteresting.

I'm pretty normal.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

I'm pretty normal, you know?

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.

I'm really a normal person.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

I think I'm pretty average. Typical.