They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

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.

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.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.