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After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

War is in the eyes.

My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.