Charles Bowden Quotes

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

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.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

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.