As for love between a man and a woman, Mr. Shepard, whose long relationship with the actress Jessica Lange cast an unwanted spotlight on his private life, described that as “terrible and impossible.” He later explained: “It’s impossible the way people enter into it feeling they’re going to be saved by the other one. And it seems like many, many times that quicksand happens in a relationship when you feel that somehow you can be saved.”

–from “His Plays About the West Forged a New Frontier” by Ben Brantley, August 1, 2017, New York Times.  Samuel Shepard Rogers III, known professionally as Sam Shepard (November 5, 1943 – July 30, 2017), was an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned over half a century. Wikipedia