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

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

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

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

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.

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.

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