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

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 than they know what to do with.

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 get over.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

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

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

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