If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.