20 Quotes by Charles Bowden

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Americans place 'strong subjective value' on the Father of Waters and will block any diminishment of its flow.

I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.