Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

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.