Joseph Heller Quotes

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

You know how it is here. A bit like the Bermuda Triangle. From time to time, one of us disappears.

You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

I don't want to disappear.