Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure – way longer than you think. Roz Chast Read Quote
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. Roz Chast Read Quote
I think that children’s books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn’t think after reading ‘Madeline’ that they were going to get appendicitis? Roz Chast Read Quote
I don’t like anything that looks gelatinous – really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness. Roz Chast Read Quote
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young ‘un, and also my cartoons were not like typical ‘New Yorker’ cartoons. Roz Chast Read Quote
I’m sure that my parents’ behavior has entered my work, I’m sorry to say. I don’t think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps. Roz Chast Read Quote
I don’t like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they’re happening. Roz Chast Read Quote
I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles. Roz Chast Read Quote
I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you’re not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you’re going to the same place they are. Roz Chast Read Quote
My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other’s only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were – to use a contemporary term I hate – co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other. Roz Chast Read Quote
