We Do Have A Zeal For Laughter

I Don't Think It's Good To Achieve Too Much At Too Early An Age. What Else Can The Future Give You If You've Already Got All That Your Imagination Has Dreamt Up For You? A Writer Is Only Discovered Once In A Lifetime, And If It Happens Very Early The Impossibility Of Matching That Moment Again Can Have A Somewhat Corrosive Effect On His Personality And Indeed On The Work Itself.

Why Are They Going To Disappear Him?' I Don't Know.' It Doesn't Make Sense. It Isn't Even Good Grammar.

The Frog Is Almost Five Hundred Million Years Old. Could You Really Say With Much Certainty That America, With All Its Strength And Prosperity, With Its Fighting Man That Is Second To None, And With Its Standard Of Living That Is Highest In The World, Will Last As Long As...the Frog?

Someone Had To Do Something Sometime. Every Victim Was A Culprit, Every Culprit A Victim, And Somebody Had To Stand Up Sometime To Try To Break The Lousy Chain Of Inherited Habit That Was Imperiling Them All.

To Yossarian, The Idea Of Pennants As Prizes Was Absurd. No Money Went With Them, No Class Privileges. Like Olympic Medals And Tennis Trophies, All They Signified Was That The Owner Had Done Something Of No Benefit To Anyone More Capably Than Everyone Else.