“You live in El Paso, you’re a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn’t change you.… — Don Winslow Computers Copy Share Image
“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.” — Don Winslow Nurse Ratched Copy Share Image
“Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our… — Don Winslow Criminal justice Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Absurd Copy Share Image
“He feels ennui depression adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because —dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and… — Don Winslow Ben Copy Share Image
Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is… — Don Winslow Culture Copy Share Image
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana… — Don Winslow Billions Copy Share Image
“This look like college to you?” Malone asks. “You see coeds, Frisbees, man buns? You don’t take notes, you don’t write anything… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like… — Don Winslow Alike Copy Share Image
“We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“In the words of Oscar Wilde, ‘I can resist everything but temptation.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“You know the word 'barbarian’ came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.’ They was talking about you people. I saw that on… — Don Winslow History Copy Share Image
“Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones… — Don Winslow Coming home Copy Share Image
“New York City has the strictest gun laws in the country but that doesn’t make any difference because all the guns come… — Don Winslow Gun laws Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm… — Don Winslow Cinema Copy Share Image
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow Body Copy Share Image
“Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.… — Don Winslow 4th of july Copy Share Image
“Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn’t true.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The NRA assholes will tell you that “guns don’t kill people, people do.” Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image