There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

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.

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.

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.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.