Daily Inspiration Quote by 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. And the same thing applies to the theater. I don't know exactly how well I fit into the scheme of things. Maybe that's good, you know, that I'm not in a niche. But there's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I've found that what's most valuable about that place is not the place itself but the other people; that through other people you can find a recognition of each other. I think that's where the real home is. (Page 97). The strongest traceable primary-source attribution I found points to Don Shewey's book-length study/biography Sam Shepard, which existed in a 1985 Dell first edition and is later cited by scholars as 'Shewey 97' when quoting this passage. Multiple secondary sources reproduce the longer wording and explicitly attribute it to 'Don Shewey's Sam Shepard,' and an academic article cites the quote as 'qtd. in Shewey 97,' indicating page 97. I could not directly inspect a scan of the 1985 book page itself in available web results, so page 97 is supported indirectly rather than by a page image. Because Shewey's book is by Don Shewey, this is not Sam Shepard's own authored book; it appears to preserve Shepard's words from an interview/conversation reproduced there. So this is likely the earliest currently verifiable publication, but I could not prove whether the words were first spoken elsewhere before appearing in print here.