Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.