125 Quotes by David Simon

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money...

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions.

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

I come from a country that is now utterly schizophrenic when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.

The show is structured like a visual novel of sorts, ... And these writers understand the complexity of theme.