An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Tradition is laziness.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.