870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I don't know if we had some Bruins who were wishful thinking. Clearly, it was a mistake.

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.

Life is like a roller coaster. It’s never going to be perfect – it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it’s decreed the people rule.

Spanish pilgrims travel on Camino de Santiago from monastery to monastery, collecting small medals to attach to their rosary as proof of their steps. I have stacks of Polaroids, each marking my own, that I sometimes spread out like tarots or baseball cards of an imagined celestial team.

I don’t think people should do biopics of living people. I’m totally opposed to that.

Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.

I was thinking about what a magical portal this lobby was when the heavy glass door opened as if swept by wind and a familiar figure in a black and scarlet cape entered. It was Salvador Dali. He looked around the lobby nervously, and then, seeing my crow, smiled. He placed his elegant, bony hand atop my head and said: “You are like a crow, a gothic crow.

Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself?