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.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Do you know how easy it would be to kill you, Miya? I've thought about it--killing you...and you think I'm not a monster.--Dylan

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

The real value in everything you do is in the details.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.