Tim Kreider, writing for The New York Times, on the broader meaning of Amtrak’s Quiet Car:
We’re a tribe, we quiet ones, we readers and thinkers and letter writers, we daydreamers and gazers out of windows. We are a civil people, courteous to excess, who disdain displays of anger as childish and embarrassing. But the Quiet Car is our territory, the last reservation to which we’ve been driven. And we can be pushed too far.
I much prefer the quiet.