Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)