American - Cartoonist | November 26, 1954 -
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.
Roz Chast
LiveTimeThinkYearLongYou
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.
DeathMeStandUnderstandKidBored
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.
SingleLinePunchJustCartoons
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.
PeopleMeLookGrayGlueSee
I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.
LoveParentsComplicatedDidThem
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.
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My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
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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.
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Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.
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I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.
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I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.
ParentsPeopleThinkKindMy OwnUp
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.
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