"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."

"Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar."

"He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar."All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me.""Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her."You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise."I don't want to dance with you."

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

"Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity."

"He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. "I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting," he continued with cruel and insulting delight."

"At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual."

"Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes..."

"All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars."

"The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean."