“There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.”
“Where were you born?""On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered."No, no. In what state were you born?""In a state of innocence.”
“Innocence has no place alongside immortality.”
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
“There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?”
“Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.”