We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

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.