Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

I like my life. It's good.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

The good life is built with good relationships.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.