As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.