'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.'

'They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and…

'But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven c…

Yossarian - the very sight of the name made him shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. …

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.