I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. 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.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.