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.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

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

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum