870 Quotes by Patti Smith

If I have any regrets, I could say that I’m sorry I wasn’t a better writer or a better singer.

Most women writers don’t interest me because they’re hung up with being a woman, they’re hung up with being Jewish, they’re hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?

New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me. New York is the thing that perverted me. New York is the thing that converted me. And New York is the thing that I love too.

My Morocco. I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing – of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily.

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.

Fate has a hand but is not the hand.

I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there’s any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.

I commenced with my chores, whistling an oft-forgotten tune, certain that we, as the seasons, prevail and that ten thousand years is yet a blink in the eye of a ringed planet or that of an archangel armed with a sword of glass.