"A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare."

"Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

"Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made …"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"