Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

The only answer can be ‘There is no “Why.” This is our nature.’ ‘Who’ and ‘What’ run deeper than ‘Why.’

No. Come in, sit down. Are you young, healthy, and strong, Luisa?”
“Yes.” Luisa sits on boxes. “Why?”
“Because what I gotta say about your article on this unsubstantiated cover-up at Seaboard will, frankly, leave you old, sick, and weak.”

only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!”
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

As if Art is the What, not the How!)

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.’

I questioned if such an ill as “too much civilization” existed or no?

both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered—a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

a wise man does not step betwixt the beast & his meat

pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.