What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

A man's head is his castle.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.