Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

"The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders."

Paolo Bacigalupi

"I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones."

Paolo Bacigalupi