Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

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.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

You've got to be a little nasty out there. But most of the time, I'm having fun.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.