"It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it."
— Adrienne Martini (Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood)

"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."
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

"The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is."
— Keiichi Sigsawa (Kino no Tabi Volume 1: Book one of THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD)

"I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting."
— Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)