Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

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

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

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

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, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

[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 movies?"