The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.