Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned clos…

- Paolo Bacigalupi

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fict…

- Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it beco…

- Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was jus…

- Paolo Bacigalupi

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

- Paolo Bacigalupi