I get the willies when I see closed doors.
My fish dream is a sex dream.
This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It’s made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you’ve got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.
Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Eve...
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never witho...
And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penul...
Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand...
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
Insanity is contagious.
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something...
Tu sei pazzo!
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from...
First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer
— А как вы считаете, — осторожно, с мягкой, вкрадчивой улыбкой спросил майор Сэндерсон, штатный психиатр, присланный полковником к Йоссариану, — почему полковник Ферридж нашел ваши сны отвратительными...
You will hurt your foot.
Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right...