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

Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.