Enrico Colantoni Quotes

People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense. I basically grew up all my life without a car.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

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

Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

New York is tough on lonely people.

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.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!