Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

My people were divided about surrendering.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

I don't have a good British accent.