Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laug…

- Meg Rosoff

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me …

- Meg Rosoff

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really h…

- Meg Rosoff

it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility…

- Meg Rosoff

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not…

- Meg Rosoff

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

- Meg Rosoff

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

- Meg Rosoff

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

- Meg Rosoff

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

- Meg Rosoff