Seamus Heaney Quotes

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

I think one of the things about railways, if you get on a train you do find - as you come into Paddington, or wherever - you look into people's windows in a way that you just can't do in a car or any other way.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

I think life in London is good.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

I used to get two buses to school, and you'd see more or less everyone in the city centre, so I kind of knew everyone around my age group.