Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself..

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. ….

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great..

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us….

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the wi….

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being….

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being ….

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life,….

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon….

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job..

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns ….

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit..

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience..

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ….

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the mov….

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone..

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle..

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to….

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while..

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth..

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee bu….