Everybody is as unstable as water.

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.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.