If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

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

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.