More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
"Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again."
"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds."
"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."