I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.