Meg Rosoff Quotes

Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

I don't have any real phobias, but I don't like creepy crawlies just like everyone else.

But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.