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 …

- David Simon

Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the fut…

- David Simon

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

- David Simon

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits a…

- David Simon

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

- David Simon

There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is t…

- David Simon

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

- David Simon

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that wa…

- David Simon

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

- David Simon