“The point is there's a gulf in this country; an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff, and the people who don't have shit. It's like this big hole in the ground, as big as the fucking Grand Canyon, and what's come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“- John L. Bridges: It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country.
- James Averill: It always was.”

Jeff Bridges - John L. Bridges
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

“Do you know that the pizza in southern Italy is the dish of the poor? I come to America and see pizza signs everywhere. So I think America not so rich after all. Then I find eating pizza here is like eating hot dog - it's for fun.”
Sophia Loren

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler