I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.