I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

... he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

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

A man's head is his castle.

Frankly, I'd like to see government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.