Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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.