American writer (1972- )
Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Drowned Cities