Quotes from book
Something Happened

Name: Something Happened
Author: Joseph Heller

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel . Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Source: Something Happened

“I do know that girls in their early twenties are easy and sweet. (Girls in their late twenties are easier but sad, and that isn't so sweet.) They are easy, I think, because they are sweet, and they are sweet, I think, because they are dumb.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“I get the willies when I see closed doors. Even at work, where I am doing so well now, the sight of a closed door is sometimes enough to make me dread that something horrible is happening behind it, something that is going to affect me adversely; if I am tired and dejected from a night of lies or booze or sex or just nerves and insomnia, I can almost smell the disaster mounting invisibly and flooding out toward me through the frosted glass panes. My hands may perspire, and my voice may come out strange. I wonder why. Something must have happened to me sometime.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Opening Lines
Something Happened (1974)

“In my middle years, I have exchanged the position of the fetus for the position of a corpse.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“Women don't suffer from penis envy. Men do.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“The years are too short, the days are too long.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

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