1. Sam Shepard, interview with Carol Rosen, Sam Shepard: A Poetic Rodeo (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 235.
2. Sam Shepard, States of Shock in Sam Shepard: Plays 3 (London: Methuen, 1996), 143.
3. Theodore W Adorno, “Trying to Understand Endgame,” in Notes to Literature: Volume 1, trans. Sherry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia UP, 1991), 246.
4. Johan Callens, Dis/figuring Sam Shepard (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007), 174.
5. Lesley A. Wade, “States of Shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard’s plays of the 1990s,” in The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard, ed. Matthew Roudané (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002), 260.