Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller
Destiny is a good thing to accept when its going your way. When it isnt, dont call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay