What does Paradise represent for you?
Living on the water
What does Hell represent?
Not knowing how I’m going to pay my next month’s rent.
What are the depths of misfortune for you ?
Being broke
Which is the quality you prefer in a man?
Manliness
The quality you prefer in a woman?
Nurturing
Your favourite virtue?
Good-as-your-word-iness.
What do you appreciate the most in your friends?
Their affection
For which faults are you the most indulgent?
Punctuality
Which is the main feature of your character?
Exuberance
Your main defect?
Lack of single-mindedness
Your main quality?
A great many interests
Your drug?
Solitude
Your dream of happiness?
Living on the water
What would be your greatest misfortune?
For a tragedy to befall me.
Where would you like to live?
California
Who would you have liked to be?
A piano lounge singer.
Which is the gift of nature you would like to have?
Long legs.
Do you like sport?
Yes. A LIVE moment of great stakes and high drama in any sport.
Your favourite occupation?
If by occupation you mean profession, then being an author. If by occupation you mean hobby, then travelling.
Your favourite first names?
Natasha, Tatiana, Misha, Kevin
Which is your favourite colour?
Wine Red, Brick red, maroon, burgundy, claret, vermillion.
Which is the flower you like?
Rhododendron
Your favourite bird?
Cardinal
Your favourite authors in prose?
Alexander Dumas, C.S. Lewis, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Truman Capote AND Steve Martin
Your favourite playwrights?
Steve Martin, Shakespeare.
Your favourite poets?
Leonard Cohen
Boris Pasternak
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aleksandr Pushkin
Your favourite composer?
Giacomo Puccini
Your favourite painter?
Pierre Renoir
Your favourite film maker?
Spielberg, Kubrick
Your favourite film or that you would recommend?
Favorite: The Godfather saga
Recommend: Groundhog Day. After that, The Godfather saga.
Your favourite actor / actress ?
Meryl Streep, and Keanu Reeves (!)
Your heroes / heroines in real life?
My grandparents, my father
The historical characters you hate the most?
Josif Stalin
What do you hate above all?
Untruthfulness and self-righteousness
The reform you appraise the most?
Women’s suffrage
The military fact you admire the most?
The Normandy invasion, Thermopylae
What is your current state of mind?
Anxiously hopeful
Do you have any regrets?
Building our last house
How would you like to die?
Slowly and theatrically
What is your motto?
Be careful what you wish for.