162 Quotes by Don Winslow

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

America’s longest war is the war on drugs.

Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.

New York City has the strictest gun laws in the country but that doesn’t make any difference because all the guns come in from the outside, up the “Iron Pipeline.

People don’t run the cartel; the cartel runs people.

Life is trying to kill us,” she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

Maybe, Keller thinks, I’ve become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.

There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who’s going to win out, put your money on money every time.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.