Roz Chast

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

— Roz Chast

“Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.”

— Roz Chast

You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen,…

— Roz Chast

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

— Roz Chast

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

— Roz Chast

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges…

— Roz Chast

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for…

— Roz Chast

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I…

— Roz Chast

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

— Roz Chast

I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to…

— Roz Chast

Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

— Roz Chast

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

— Roz Chast

“Never put bananas in the refrigerator.”

— Roz Chast

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

— Roz Chast

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.

— Roz Chast

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was…

— Roz Chast

You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons…

— Roz Chast

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's…

— Roz Chast

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going…

— Roz Chast

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

— Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

— Roz Chast

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

— Roz Chast

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I…

— Roz Chast

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced,…

— Roz Chast

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

— Roz Chast