Roz Chast Quotes

I try to avoid large crowds.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

Flying isn't great for me - or getting caught in a crowd.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety.

A mall was something that I just used to hang out in as a kid. And then you go there, and there's 4,000 people waiting for you to perform. It's a big difference.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.

I hate it when you go somewhere and 9 million people are staring at you.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.