I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

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.

[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?"

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.

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.

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.

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