Bruce Porter > Quotes

“What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about van Gogh and Picasso, he gave me a book about Dali. And just the way he conducted himself, you could see it. He was very elegant in his manners.”
― Bruce Porter, BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All

“He was standing back in the living room, and he just had this look. He had on a tan suit, with these hazel eyes, shaggy blond hair. Very good-looking. Very well dressed. He could do this thing with his eyes. All of a sudden they were like stars - this twinkle there, this spark. I still remember that look. 'What is this?' I said to myself. 'What is this?”
― Bruce Porter, BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All