quote —— unquote 15 May, 2011

Taken from Patti Smith's Just Kids:

"For no one would see what he [Robert Mapplethorpe] had seen, no one would understand."

"It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me."

"Everything distracted me, but most of all myself"

"Once again I found myself contemplating what I should be doing to do something of worth. Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant."