"The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish."

"But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong."

"She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep."

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."