Kiriyama Kazuo Quotes & Sayings

One thing was absolutely certain - it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's - and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion. — Koushun Takami

On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases. — Susan Orlean

Reporting was imitation life, imitation expertise, imitation worldliness, imitation intimacy; mastering a subject only to forget it, befriending people only to drop them. — Jonathan Franzen

That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and...

If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game. — Koushun Takami

Furthermore
though it was quite irrelevant now
he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago
and then tossed his violin into the trash. — Koushun Takami

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.' — Adriane Lenox

Key, crown, child," he muttered. "Well, fuck you, Patience. Three things must you kiss before I let you spook me for good. My boots, my balls, and my ass. — Scott Lynch

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education ... — Brassai

...the value of a work of art is set by desire: who wants to own it and how badly — Hannah Mary Rothschild