“As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.”

“ It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”

“Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.”

“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.”