Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.