Bob Young

“Just across the bridge is the gigantic marketplace, the insatiable consumer machine that drives the violence here. North Americans smoke the dope, snort the coke, shoot the heroin, do the meth, and then have the nerve to point south (down, of course, on the map), and wag their fingers at the “Mexican drug problem” and Mexican corruption.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Most things don't stay the way they are very long.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.”
― Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog

“It is a strange fact that America is only prepared to look at herself through the safety of cartoons: Shrek, South Park and The Simpsons hold the mirror to society.”
― Rupert Everett, Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins