Top 52 Quotes by Roz Chast

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.

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

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.

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

I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

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

I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.