All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.

...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

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.