His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.

‘Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?’

‘How can he see he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?’

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

Yossarian had done his best to warn him the night before. ‘You haven’t got a chance, kid,’ he told him glumly. ‘They hate Jews.’ ‘But I’m not Jewish,’ answered Clevinger. ‘It will make no difference,’ Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. ‘They’re after everybody.’

He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly.

He had opposed his daughter’s marriage to Colonel Moodus because he disliked attending weddings.