Shepard's plays have a spine that is the thrust of his perceptions. The vertebrae are not obvious because the energy of the perceptions creates a field or an aura surrounding them. We have fields of musculature around our spines, and then electric charge around the musculature—so have these plays. Plays are organisms. (p. 1)

The Cowboy Mouth is just the opposite of what it looks like. It is pure elegance of intellect.

The slapdash of the speeches and the spontaneousness of Cavale and Slim make a shape that is a pawprint of the Universe. The ego of the artist settles into the field of the self's unattached experience and information and makes them a whole—then extends again like a tentacle or an arm. It is an organic motion that is representative of the action of the physical mind—the mind of the author's body, and everyone's body...