How that happened - how the money and the power arrayed itself and who got the share in that, who got cut out, who was exploited and who did the exploiting - that to me is a story of The Deuce that's more about almost the America that we inhabit today, more than just merely about pornography or prostitution.

Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable.

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

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

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

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

The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.