“I came from Hopalong Cassidy and Bugs Bunny…”

“He grew up, bored and mischievous, in and around Lexington, Ky. His parents, who’d met as graduate students in psychology at Columbia, were academics. “We lived in the suburbs in America in the ’50s,” he says. “My roots are shallow. I’m a little jealous of people with strong ethnic and cultural roots. Lucky Martin Scorsese or Art Spiegelman or Dave Chappelle. I came from Hopalong Cassidy and Bugs Bunny and first grade at ordinary Maxwell Elementary.”

- fra New York Times anmeldelse af Richard Hells nye selvbiografi, ‘I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp’