“I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as ‘Massholes’’’

— Geraldine Brooks (born 1955), Australian-American novelist and journalist. Despite her complaints about Bay State drivers, she lives in the state, albeit in bucolic West Tisbury, on Martha’s Vineyard.