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

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

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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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

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

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

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

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

I don't use old music.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

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

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

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

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

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.