Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

If you give up, then you can never win again. Giving up is not an option. You cannot give up on anything.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.