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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.

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

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

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.

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!