Quote Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo View Post
OK, nobody got the bonus points but you can't leave us like this ( I mean in ignorance....) . Please tell us the name of the book.
The book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...the dialog was he's in the airfield mess hall and he is panicing because he's a bombardier sitting in the node of a B25 with just 6.25mm of flexi-glass between him and all the German flak going off all around and he says he wants to get medical discharge because "They're trying to kill me!!!"

His comrades are all very realxed and tell him "They're not trying to kill you Yossarian, they're trying to kill everybody! You can't take it so personally"
He says "But I'm a person aren't I? They're trying to kill me"

They then say "You can't think of it like that. What would happen if everybody thought that way?"

Yosarrian answers logically "Then I'd be be crazy to think otherwise!"
That book may be the best book of the last century.