What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo IshiguroIf you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
Kazuo IshiguroI've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
Kazuo IshiguroIt is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.
Kazuo Ishiguro