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

- Roz Chast

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than …

- Roz Chast

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 d…

- 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

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

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 bo…

- Roz Chast

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

- Roz Chast

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not…

- Roz Chast

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

- Roz Chast