For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

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

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

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

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

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

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.