Pivot Questionnaire

Bernard Pivot's questionnaire

1. What is your favorite word? Love

2. What is your least favourite word? Goodbye

3. What inspires you creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Music, relationships, God, natural wonders

4. What turns you off? Lying and manipulation

5. What sound or noise do you love? Music in minor keys; accents different than mine; that one "nee-ner nee-ner" sound in the Star Wars films after the words have scrolled down the screen.

6. What sound or noise do you hate? Squealing tires; excessive whining; strangers sucking face on an elevator.

7. What is your favourite swearword or curse? scheisse!

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Translator; Travel correspondent

9. What profession you would not like to do? Politico

10. If God exists, what would you like to hear him say to you after your death?
Welcome home, dear one. There are lots of folks here who’ve been waiting for you . . .