| | "There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either." |
| | "He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down." |
| | "On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain the chores would not be done." |
| | "He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody." |
| | "I yearn for you tragically. A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army." |
| | "As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy." |
| | "an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him." |
| | "I'm talking bout cooperatin. Favors. You do a favor for me, I'll do one for you. Get it?" |
| | "He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive." |
| | "You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?" |
| | "The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with." |
| | "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three." |
| | "With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway." |
| | "Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." |
| | "You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail." |
| | "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!" |
| | "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off." |
| | "We've got your pal, buddy. We've got your pal." |
| | "It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean to disappear somebody?" |
| | "That's the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority." |
| | "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action." |