A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

Abigail Spencer
Abigail Spencer

Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance.

Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

Alex Bregman
Alex Bregman

I witnessed an MVP firsthand in Jose Altuve. I asked him what he did during the offseason, and he said he trains his core.

Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.