Our political divides have become our personal divides.

- Ben H. Winters

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes…

- Ben H. Winters

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

- Ben H. Winters

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writi…

- Ben H. Winters

We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opp…

- Ben H. Winters

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

- Ben H. Winters

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the mos…

- Ben H. Winters

It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are goi…

- Ben H. Winters

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative …

- Ben H. Winters