Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

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

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

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?