She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

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

The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.