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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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