Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Roz Chast - Page 2

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

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

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 the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.