mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. 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.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.