125 Quotes by David Simon

Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that’s a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can’t tell me that if America didn’t exist, the culture of movies wouldn’t exist. It’s not a distinctly American art form.

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That’s sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.

People from here will often say, “I’m not from the United States, I’m from New Orleans.”

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

Tom Pellegrini suppresses an almost overwhelming desire to see this woman dragged into a police wagon and bounced over every pothole between here and headquarters.

It’s good to be good, but it’s better to be lucky.

What drugs haven’t destroyed, the war against them has.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I’d say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn’t on your own behalf, if it’s for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.