Roz Chast Quotes

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

I've always lived in a city.

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.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

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

I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.

I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

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.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.