Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Yossarian snarled, arguing all the more vehemently because he suspected he was wrong.

to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.”

the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God,

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

“It doesn’t make sense. It isn’t even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?”

Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.”

“It’s your fault,” Yossarian argued, “for raising the number of missions.” “No, it’s your fault for refusing to fly them,” Colonel Korn retorted. “The men were perfectly content to fly as many missions as we asked as long as they thought they had no alternative. Now you’ve given them hope, and they’re unhappy. So the blame is all yours.”