“We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation.”— Patti Smith, newyorker.com
“Like Cooper and James Dean — and let’s throw Beckett in there, too, with the beautiful hair and the minimalist outfits — Mr. Shepard had something in short supply in this time of public figures crying out for likes. And that something was coolness, a mode of presentation and expression that may have…”— Jim Windolf, nytimes.com