83 Quotes by Roz Chast

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

But we can't lead our lives in fear of what might be. So live each day to its utmost, only then will you be free. (Poem by Chast's mother)

Never put bananas in the refrigerator.

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

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

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.

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

I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.