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

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.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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

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