David Simon Quotes

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

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

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.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

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.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

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.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

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

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

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.

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.

I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?