Rogues Quotes

“None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“Anthropologists like to say that to observe a culture is usually, in some small way, to change it. A similar dictum holds true for Bourdain's show. Whenever Bourdain discovered a hole-in-the-wall culinary gem, he places it on the tourist map, thereby leaching it of the authenticity that drew him to it in the first place. 'It's a gloriously doomed enterprise,' he acknowledged. 'I'm in the business of finding great places, and then we fuck them up.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“During his first term as president, Jefferson spent $7,500—roughly $120,000 in today’s currency—on wine, and he is generally regarded as America’s first great wine connoisseur. (He might also have been America’s first great wine bore. “There was, as usual, a dissertation upon wines,” John Quincy Adams noted in his diary after dining with Jefferson in 1807. “Not very edifying.”)”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“I have a rampaging curiosity about things, and she was content, I think, to be with me. To go to the Caribbean once a year. There were things that I wanted, and I was willing to really hurt somebody to have them." Bourdain describes his separation from Putkoski as 'the greatest betrayal' of his life. In an email, Putkoski wrote to me, 'I'm big on shared experiences, which I'd thought had bulletproofed our partnership... We'd been through an awful lot of stuff together, a lot of it not so great, a lot of it wonderful fun.' She concluded, 'I just didn't anticipate how tricky success would be.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“(“I won’t eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms,” Bourdain warned. “They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can’t be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.”)”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“the perpetrators of terrible crimes are also victims themselves—indeed, that only victims of mental illness or awful circumstances could commit such crimes. “Nobody starts out as a killer,” Jonathan Shapiro said. “These folks are damaged goods when they come to us. They’re like a tangled-up piece of cloth. And our job is to try to untangle it, to figure out what made them the way that they are.” Clarke has said that most of her death-penalty clients have endured “unbelievable trauma,” and that “many suffer from severe cognitive-development issues that affect the core of their being.” She often invokes a mantra of capital-defense work: “None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“a posture of heavy-lies-the-crown fatigue.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

“I asked Levak what kind of personality profile he might have prepared for Trump as a candidate
for the show. He said he would have noted "the energy, the impulsiveness, the inability to articulate a complete thought because he gets interrupted by emotions, so when he speaks, it's all adjectives-
'great; huge, 'horrible?" What made Trump so magnetic as a reality-television star was his impulse to transgress, Levak continued, and it is the same quality that has made a captive audience of the world, "That somebody can become that successful while also being that emotionally undisciplined--it's so macabre that you have to watch it, " he said "And you keep waiting for the comeuppance. But it doesn't come.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks