You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

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.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

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.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

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.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.