Quotes About Eileen Myles

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

are you writing a book or are you just in your house

If the end of one's youth is a thin slice of cheese I ate mine standing in that room. I was there because I was hungry. That's all.

I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.