More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."
"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."