What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. — Charles Bowden Alive Copy Share Image
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should… — Charles Bowden Character Copy Share Image
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is… — Charles Bowden Stories Copy Share Image
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that… — Charles Bowden Civilization Copy Share Image
“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a… — Charles Bowden Adventure Copy Share Image
If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three… — Charles Bowden Army Copy Share Image
“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that… — Charles Bowden Computers Copy Share Image
