For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

Perpetual possibilities exist to win the game of life.

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.