“...Jezebel the nun, who violently knits...”

“...the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.”

“I'm sympathetic to the nuns' violent impulses. I mean, if I'd given up sex to devote myself to a man who I had to just trust loved me, despite never being physically around to prove it, I'd probably be smacking little children too.”

“This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter”

“Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”

“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”