Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

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.

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