A biography for Sam Shepardhasn’t been written yet.
“There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.”
“To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.”
“Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!”
“More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.”
“There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.”
“I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.”
“Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.”