Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting. — 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 invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else… — Richard Hell Copy Share
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 and tell the truth is inherently futile, a contradiction in terms, and it's exactly those things about oneself and the world that are invisible because they are woven into one's fabric that are the truth. Just… — Richard Hell Copy Share
The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
