“Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.”

“When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“Don't let things you can't do stop you from doing things you can.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

“In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author