He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
Insanity is contagious.
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
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.