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.

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 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.

Some boys feel they are like girls, They are gentle, and like their hair in curls.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.