“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.”
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“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a bumbling imperialism. But what...is taking place all along the line will profoundly alter the future of the United States.”
― Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
― Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
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