I’ve done a lot of death cartoons – tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries… I’m not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes. Roz Chast Read Quote
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they’re verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they’re happening. Roz Chast Read Quote
I can’t even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don’t seem like real people to me: they’re props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don’t find funny. I have to feel like they’re real people. Roz Chast Read Quote
I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can’t fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game. Roz Chast Read Quote
I had to get good grades and do well in school – my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher – and they took this very seriously. Roz Chast Read Quote
I love detail, like drawing what’s on top of someone’s coffee table. Maybe there’s a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes. Roz Chast Read Quote
In Brooklyn, I don’t feel that I’m holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk. Roz Chast Read Quote
The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it’s a combination of words and pictures. You don’t have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts. Roz Chast Read Quote