It's not so easy writing about nothing.Patti Smith
Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happenedPatti Smith
We want things we cannot have. We seek to reclaim a certain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother's voice. I want to see my children as children. Hands small, feet swift, everything changes.Patti Smith
The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.Patti Smith
We are all just passing time, and occupy our chair very briefly.Patti Smith
It's not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.Patti Smith
Each line we succeed in releasing from the hub we tie to ourselves.Patti Smith
What is within us - one's sense of the world - never dies, and each of us carries this essence of late humanity forward in our own way.Patti Smith
The world is full of possibilities and I love the idea of changing, even if it's the perception of change.Patti Smith
One closes a door and then opens another only to see it shut in his face. Life.Patti Smith