After four hours on the road in a car, I'm having conversations with dead relatives and reliving arguments with old girlfriends and thinking of my first-grade teacher and pondering the universe. There isn't another place like a car for reverie in modern society.
Dan Neil, 49, Los Angeles Times automotive critic, Los Angeles
I've learned to forget about being a perfectionist, because entropy always wins out in the end
Darren Kaufman, 52, ER doctor, Miami
http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/the-american-man-0509