I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

The idea of using actual clippings came about as a way of characterizing Gold. Gold uses clippings because he hates doing research and is not even really interested in the books and articles he writes.

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You'll always regret it.

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

I think Haig will be foolish, but perhaps not quite as foolish as Kissinger was, because Haig doesn't have the education Kissinger had. Haig is a little more dangerous because, I fear, he believes what he says, whereas I never got that impression from Kissinger.

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and pouring off the alcohol with which he was poisoning himself into separate bottles rapidly in order to steal as much as he could before Captain Black roused himself with recollection and came hurrying over indolently to steal the rest himself.