Ellie Corey

“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 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

“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”
― Charles Bowden

“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