Ellie Corey

“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.”
― Charles Bowden, 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.”
― Charles Bowden, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

“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.”
― Charles Bowden, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

“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, Desierto: Memories of the Future