Who are your heroes?
My Unholy Trinity has been Jesus, Galileo, and Oscar Wilde.
Which living person do you most admire?.
Among my personal friends, Jacques Barzun. Among the more distant, Nelson Mandela.
Which living person do you most despise?.
I try not to despise anyone, and I usually succeed. Contempt is bad for the soul.
—Eric Bentley, “A Proust Questionnaire”