Ernie Pyle

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

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

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

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

There are no atheists in the foxhole.