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 of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

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.