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

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

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

Rise above principal and do what's right.