“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
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. — David Simon Fellowship Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon America Copy Share Image
I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right… — David Simon Awareness Copy Share Image
What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is… — David Simon Birth Copy Share Image
How that happened - how the money and the power arrayed itself and who got the share in that, who got cut… — David Simon Cutting 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
Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to… — David Simon Involved Copy Share Image
I feel like if you know any women who's an essayist or a writer or a public speaker or just a public… — David Simon Amazed Copy Share Image
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not… — David Simon African american Copy Share Image
Doesn't matter if you're fourteen or if you're eight, there's an incredible vernacular that I do believe has become more and more… — David Simon Believe Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Brutal 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
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon Accounts 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
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
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
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core… — David Simon Action Copy Share Image
Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. — David Simon America Copy Share Image
Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I… — David Simon Baltimore Copy Share Image
“(sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit) For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having… — David Simon Damn good Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Balance Copy Share Image
