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.

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

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

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 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.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.

Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.