Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

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.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.