“To me, God is like this happy bus driver.”

“I don’t mind authority, but not authoritarian authority. After all, the bus driver is allowed to be the boss of the bus. But if he’s bad at driving, he’s not going to be a bus driver anymore.”

“In other words, Bush broke what I have always called the “Amish bus driver” rule. If your religion requires you not to drive, cool beans, free country — but then you can‘t get hired to be a bus driver if your religion won‘t let you drive the bus.”

“I feel bad when I'm the only person on the bus. It's like I'm the only person who showed up to the driver's birthday party.”

“Thinking hard about you
I got on the bus
and paid 30 cents car fare
and asked the driver for two transfers
before discovering
that I was
alone.”

“Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I’d oblige you. (Xypher)”

“The five-hundred-bushelers… were on average five, at most ten, times as rich as the thetes, the lowest grade of citizen. …Today, the gap between, say, a municipal bus driver and a Fortune 500 CEO approaches infinity.”

“When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.”

“Bianca di Angelo shivered. "That explains Nico, you remember last summer, those guys
who tried to attack us in the alley in DC?"
"And that bus driver," Nico said. "The one with the ram's horns. I *told* you that was real.”

“Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.”