“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”

“The world would become better offIf people tried to become better.And people would become betterIf they stopped trying to become better off.”

“If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.”

“A bum slumped in a corner seat called out, "Give the girl a dance already, ya bum!”

“It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.”

“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He’s a modern citizen for whom society doesn’t exist.”

“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.”