870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I feel a real responsibility to the images I get attached to.

Tearing things apart (is) a powerful aspect of human nature.

—There are many truths and there are many worlds, said the sign solemnly. —Yes, I said, feeling quite humbled. And you were right. I did dream, many dreams, and they were much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of the mind. Yes, I absolutely dreamed.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

I could feel the insidious fingers of memory rustling through the underbrush like the dismembered hand of the pianist scrabbling toward Peter Lorre's throat in The Beast with Five Fingers.

Some things melt before they become memories.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole.

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.