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

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

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

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

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

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.