Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning. A. I.

Joseph Heller (May 1 1923 – December 12 1999) was an American satirical novelist short story writer and playwright. The title of one of his works Catch-22 entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle where an absurd no-win choice particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility and regardless of choice the same negative outcome is a certainty.