What is your idea of perfect happiness?A full table, a good bottle, no agenda, and someone else
doing the cooking!
On what occasion do you lie?
When someone asks if a meeting was “useful.”
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
A life optimised for comfort and devoid of edge.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Time spent exactly how I want it.
When and where were you happiest?
Usually somewhere I nearly didn’t go.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Knowing when to leave.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Playing the piano well enough to fake depth.
Where would you most like to live?
Anywhere with a coastline and cold beer. I pretty much have that right now!
What is your most treasured possession?
A well-stamped passport and the stories it quietly carries.
What is your most marked characteristic?
An inability to leave things as they are.