David Simon

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

— David Simon

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

— David Simon

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

— David Simon

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

— David Simon

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

— David Simon

“A man got to have a code. --The Wire”

— David Simon

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

— David Simon

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

— David Simon

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

— David Simon

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

— David Simon

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

— David Simon

The best # gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, # happier , and more at # peace .

— David Simon

I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become…

— David Simon

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

— David Simon

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

— David Simon

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

— David Simon

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to…

— David Simon

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the…

— David Simon

You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are…

— David Simon

Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a…

— David Simon

We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody…

— David Simon

“In any case where there is no apparent suspect, the crime lab will produce no valuable evidence. In those cases where a…

— David Simon

I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a…

— David Simon

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as…

— David Simon

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea…

— David Simon

I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that…

— David Simon

I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They…

— David Simon

I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically…

— David Simon

What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these…

— David Simon

If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in…

— David Simon

“you believe a little shithead like this is able to stay on the run for so long?” McLarney declares, returning from yet…

— David Simon

When we were kids coming up, if you stole your dad's Playboy magazine, that was about as much of an education as…

— David Simon

“If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some…

— David Simon

“It isn't about the welfare check. It never was. It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or…

— David Simon

“The Audacity of Despair "You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But…

— David Simon

“This is an existential crisis rooted not only in race—which the corner has slowly transcended—but in the unresolved disaster of the American…

— David Simon

“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when…

— David Simon

“McLarney laughs, then leaps into the parable of Snot Boogie, who joined the neighborhood crap game, waited for the pot to thicken,…

— David Simon

What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

— David Simon

“Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.”

— David Simon