More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"