870 Quotes by Patti Smith

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.