You Can't Avoid Death

"As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and those who didn't hated him and were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian. but they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and was as strong as an ox."

At this point in the book, I really began to question whether Yossarian is actually insane or not. Also, I think this seems like a bit of comic relief and is also ironic. A man who volunteered to fight in a war is paranoid about death. This quote is also important because it introduces another major theme within the book, which is that death is unavoidable. Throughout the book, Yossarian does not seem to care about the war at all, but rather only about trying to save his own life. At one point, he says he doesn't even care if they hit their target and completed their mission, as long as he makes it back alive. I think this is setting up the ending of the book and I feel like Yossarian will have to make a life and death decision before the book is over.