Roz Chast Quotes

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

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

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people’s stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents’ house, and I don’t want any of it. If I didn’t want it from my parents, I don’t want it from your parents.

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.

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

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

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 artist’s line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use – whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw – art nerd stuff like that.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.

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

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

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don’t think your kids are going to want it, don’t take it.

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 be in this bed, and somebody’s going to have to clean you up.