Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Yossarian knew it was a good one because Yossarian was a collector of good questions and had used them to disrupt the educational sessions Clevinger had once conducted two nights a week in Captain Black’s intelligence tent with the corporal in eyeglasses who everybody knew was probably a subversive.