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

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!” Yossarian sputtered.~ Catch-22

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.