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War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.