More quotes by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."
"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."