“Alcoholism is an insidious disease; until I confronted it I wasn’t aware that it was creeping up on me. I finally did AA in the hardcore down on Pico Boulevard. I said, ‘Don’t put me in with Elton John or anything, just throw me to the lions.’”
More from Sam Shepard
“You write things in different states of mind. After a long day of writing, once you sleep…”
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“I’m not interested in borders so much as I like putting things together.”
“The stories my characters tell are stories that are always unfinished, always imagistic…”