You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

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.

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

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.