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

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

[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?"

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

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