"“From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppos…"

"Let someone else get killed!" "Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?" "Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool…"

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of danger…"

"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."

"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""

"The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arg…"

"Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the questi…"

"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him."

"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him."

"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."