Roz Chast : (4)

" I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can’t fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game. " - Roz Chast

" My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other’s only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were – to use a contemporary term I hate – co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other. " - Roz Chast

" 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. " - 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