My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
“Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.” — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories.… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking,… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
