'The amount of maniacs'

Doyle's Cafe, in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It’s a well-known watering hole.

— Photo by John Phelan 

"It’s just a really interesting place to grow up. The sports teams, the colleges, the racial tension, the state workers, the boozing, the anger. All of that stuff. I don’t think I ever appreciated the amount of maniacs that live in Massachusetts until I left. When I lived here, I took it for granted that everyone was kind of funny and a bit of a character."

— Bill Burr (born in 1968), stand-up comedian who grew up in the inner Boston suburb of Canton