"My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning."

“People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.”

“I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.”

“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”

“I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.”

“My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.”

“When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.”

“Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.”

Source : Mizuki Nomura (2012). “Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)”, p.132, Hachette UK

“I'm a car freak, I never usually have one for more than a year before I change it.”