870 Quotes by Patti Smith

You can’t carve up the world. It’s not a pie.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen – a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children – I learned a lot.

If I’m really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don’t even think about brushing my hair.

Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book.

Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.

Laughter. An essential ingredient for survival. And we laughed a lot.

My great quandary was what coat to wear and which books to bring.

I know from an early age that I’m very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I’d love giving book reports.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I’d spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.