Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.