Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.