I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

- 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.

- Roz Chast

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.

- Roz Chast