Sam Shepard > Quotes

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”
― Sam Shepard

“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.”
― Sam Shepard, Cruising Paradise

“She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.”
― Sam Shepard

“This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.”
― Sam Shepard, True West

“Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?
Wesley: No.
Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?
Wesley: Yes.
Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you.
Wesley: Doesn't scare me.
Weston: No?
Wesley: No.
Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it?
Wesley: How?
Weston: Because I saw myself infected with it. That's how. I saw me carrying it around. His poison in my body.”
― Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class

“Rondó por la piscina
Del Holiday Inn
Y de golpe se sintió completamente inútil

La imagen de una piscina
A medianoche
En Texas

Pobre Texas
Excavada
Como todas las demás

3/79
San Marcos, Texas”
― Sam Shepard, Crónicas de motel

“Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente.”
― Sam Shepard, Crónicas de motel

“Give me the keys.”
― Sam Shepard, True West

“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.”
― Sam Shepard, True West