“I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fightin...” — Roz Chast Quote

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.