Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. I…

- Sam Shepard

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

- Sam Shepard

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

- Sam Shepard

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

- Sam Shepard

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

- Sam Shepard

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

- Sam Shepard

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

- Sam Shepard

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

- Sam Shepard

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's a…

- Sam Shepard