...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.