From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

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.

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.