PAOLO BACIGALUPI QUOTES

American writer (1972- )

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: power


Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: life


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

Tags: change


Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: sex


Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: law


Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

Tags: loyalty


If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Drowned Cities

Tags: approval