“ Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. Sam Shepard
“ It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. Sam Shepard
“ My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad. Sam Shepard
“ I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. Sam Shepard
“ The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. Sam Shepard
“ My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. Sam Shepard
“ My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, liv… Sam Shepard
“ You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine. Sam Shepard
“ He pictured both cities simultaneously, as though they hung on the extended arms of the orange clouds. Suspended. Tiny San Francisco dangling to the north: innocent, rich and a little bit silly. The s… Sam Shepard
“ In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can… Sam Shepard
“ Austin: Well it is like salvation sort of. I mean the smell. I love the smell of toast. And the sun's coming up. It makes me feel like anything's possible. Y'know? Sam Shepard
“ I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows. Sam Shepard
“ Rondó por la piscinaDel Holiday InnY de golpe se sintió completamente inútilLa imagen de una piscinaA medianocheEn TexasPobre TexasExcavadaComo todas las demás3/79San Marcos, Texas Sam Shepard
“ On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. Sam Shepard
“ For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theore… Sam Shepard
“ Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I'm gonna' lose her when she's already gone. And this fear--this fear swarms through me--floods… Sam Shepard
“ And in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life. Sam Shepard
“ There are times when I can’t help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It’s always been the place to be. I know I’ve been recommended by very wise people to stay in the pres… Sam Shepard
