"but these conditions had not exactly taken shape, I had not been in the groove long enough with my materials to feel I was on a road."

Inferno, Eileen Myles

"If you did something special then time would stop and you could dream. The thing I had hated about growing up was that everyone wanted you to wake up and pay attention."

La désenchantée (1990)

"Cause I could know myself, that's all. Some lazy thing I could always do because I was dumb and not normal, but special... something crazy--maybe that could be my job? I had that thought just briefly one tiny light and then it was gone."

Inferno, Eileen Myles