If character is destiny, the good are damned.

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

A man's head is his castle.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.