Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves. — 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 to say… — 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 comes from… — 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 things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. — 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 drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share
“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… — Charles Bowden 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 fresh pasta… — 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 love.” — Charles Bowden 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 other is… — Charles Bowden 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 economic machine,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
