Punk Quotes by Richard Hell

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

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

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

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

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

— Richard Hell

“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

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

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

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

— Richard Hell

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

“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

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

— Richard Hell