Patti Smith Quotes

I've never liked feeling closed in.

I can't live in a room without a window.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

I've never enjoyed being cooped up.

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

This is going to sound crazy, but the first thing I do when I get home is take off all my clothes - at home, just around the house. I take everything off. I can't stand clothes! I take everything off - my shoes, my socks, my watch, shirt, everything. I am completely naked.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.