When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

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.

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

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.