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.

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

Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.

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.

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.

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.

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