There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

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

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

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.

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana