It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.