Eddie Kaye Thomas Quotes

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

I had a big 'New York Times' crossword puzzle phase.

I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

I grew up taking the Long Island Railroad from Baldwin, New York into Penn Station and walking upstairs to Madison Square Garden. Those are some of my favorite memories.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

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

I feel like I'd be good at 'Password.' Or 'Pyramid.'

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.

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.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

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 used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.

I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.