“They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.”

“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.”

“The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.”

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

“Orr was one of the homeliest freaks Yossarian had ever encountered, and one of the most attractive.”

“With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.”