John J. Winters > Quotes

“There’s nothing like the memory of a lost friend to remind a man of his own mortality.”
― John J. Winters, Sam Shepard: A Life

“As a youth, he would lie awake listening to the sounds of the night—his sisters’ breathing, the dog at the back door—and worry about “how or when I’m going to die.”
― John J. Winters, Sam Shepard: A Life

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”
― John J. Winters, Sam Shepard: A Life

“I believe in my mask/The man I made up is me.”
― John J. Winters, Sam Shepard: A Life