“I walk in the sprinkling rain like a lion. Pretty soon there won't be lions anymore. If I have to die to be a lion I'll die. I'm roaring, but in the language of rain and sand: I am invisible,… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time.… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“Amazing how the most obvious things escape your notice. Maybe the truth is exactly the things you don't notice. Maybe the aim to see… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
