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I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

I have to learn to knit.

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

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