Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

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.

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.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Enthusiasm: If you don’t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you’ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you’ll probably double your income.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.