Study Notes Dated : 2002-06-13

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
What are some things you want to accomplish before you die?
Answer :
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the
surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that
transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

Question 2:
Do you know what your your name means?
Answer :
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Question 3:
What flavor of ice cream do you wish existed?
Answer :
A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

Question 4:
Have you ever been in love?
Answer :
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking.
Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work,
sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories
through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of recognition, for
old memories and old connection.

Question 5:
How much time do you spend watching sports in a week?
Answer :
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Question 6:
What do you do to get rid of stress?
Answer :
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living
treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst
all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort,
guidance and sympathy.

Question 7:
What will phones be like in 10 years?
Answer :
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but
irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of
discouragement.

Question 8:
What did you want to grow up to be when you were younger?
Answer :
There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that
doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and
that's what the individual investor should do.

Question 9:
If you could make a holiday, what would it be like? What traditions would it have?
What would people eat on your holiday?
Answer :
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power ... but then,
so should every other living creature.

Question 10:
What is your favorite holiday?
Answer :
Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.