Top 52 Quotes by Roz Chast

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great.

For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

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.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.

I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.

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.

Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish.