David Simon Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. February 9, 1960
Birthday: February 9
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.
source: "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007. 
topic: Selfish, Oedipus, People, Olympian Gods, Lightning Bolts, Greek Tragedy, Hurling
