Lorenda Knisel

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”
― Patti Smith

“Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

- Gloria”
― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015