Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

Through the eyes of a happy girl lies guilt and destruction.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.