The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before. — David Simon Beauty Copy Share Image
Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves. — David Simon Character Copy Share Image
Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you. — David Simon Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a… — David Simon Achieve Copy Share Image
“If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?” — David Simon Crime Copy Share Image
Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience. — David Simon Awareness Copy Share Image
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. — David Simon Hero Copy Share Image
Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable. — David Simon Pornography Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.… — David Simon Bits Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently… — David Simon Appreciation Copy Share Image
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The… — David Simon Guilt Copy Share Image
TV writers live life of well-paid, specialty prostitutes. We have a very special skill set and we occupy one of the higher… — David Simon Life Copy Share Image
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton… — David Simon Bonus Copy Share Image
“Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies… — David Simon Lies Copy Share Image
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked… — David Simon Cities Copy Share Image
Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same… — David Simon Capitalism Copy Share Image
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.… — David Simon Books Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Barack Copy Share Image
That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.'… — David Simon Drug Copy Share Image
The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred… — David Simon Body Copy Share Image
Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel… — David Simon Allowing Copy Share Image
“West Baltimore. You sit on your stoop, you drink Colt 45 from a brown paper bag and you watch the radio car… — David Simon Around the corner Copy Share Image
Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount… — David Simon Direct Copy Share Image
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make… — David Simon Accept Copy Share Image
You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before… — David Simon Acting Copy Share Image
Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. — David Simon America Copy Share Image
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon Choice Copy Share Image
“Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.” — David Simon Baltimore Copy Share Image
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action… — David Simon Action Copy Share Image
“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.” — David Simon Rewarded Copy Share Image
The best # gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, # happier , and more at # peace . — David Simon Best gift Copy Share Image
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. — David Simon Doe Copy Share Image
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon Accounts Copy Share Image
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. — David Simon Fellowship Copy Share Image
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 Election Copy Share Image
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies. — David Simon Comedies Copy Share Image
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon Compromises Copy Share Image
We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that. — David Simon America Copy Share Image
Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're… — David Simon Areas Copy Share Image
“It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man… — David Simon Murder Copy Share Image
