Cloud Atlas (novel)

"[...] science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. [...] Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man , are the same faculties thatll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!"

"As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent."

"To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom."

"Et si vous nuisez à ma réputation, eh bien, il faudra que je ruine la vôtre!"

"People knelt in prayer, some moving their lips. Envy em, really I do. I envy God, too, privy to their secrets. Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time Ive stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street."

"Now you just look here, you grebo, you can go shag your bloody sporran if you think—" One of his teeth splashed into my Kilmagoon, fifteen feet away. (I fished the tooth out to keep as proof of this unlikely claim, otherwise no one will ever believe me.)"