Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightyened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

Actors are very generous.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.