The test of true competence is the end result.
I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.
To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.