Charles Bowden Quotes

#1. The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.

Pearl Zhu

#2. If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

Frederick Lenz

#3. 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 and salsa cruda and red wine. I don't believe in white wine; I insist on color.

Charles Bowden

#4. 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.

Charles Bowden

#5. Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Jonathan Maberry

#6. All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Bruce Lee

#7. 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.

Charles Bowden

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Charles Bowden

#11. A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

James Dickey

#12. Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

E.B. White

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

Charles Bowden

#14. Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

Charles Bowden

#15. I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Laura Bush

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

Charles Bowden