The principal aspect of my personality – / The quality that I desire in a man – Sensibility, morality. / The quality that I desire in a woman – Beauty, courage. / What I appreciate most about my friends – Their lives lived so different from mine, their decency. / My main fault – Hesitation. / My favourite occupation – Going to the concert, reading, walking in the mountains, train rides, looking into the past. / My dream of happiness – Being what I am meant to be. / What would be my greatest misfortune? – My undeveloped nature. / What I should like to be – A poet. / The country where I should like to live – The one I thought up as a kid, with many maps and drawings. / My favourite colour – / My favourite flower – Carnation. / My favourite bird – Woodstock. / My favourite prose authors – Panaït Istrati, Dostoyevsky. / My favourite poets – Goethe, Rilke, Stefan George. / My heroes in fiction – Krazy Kat. / My favourite heroines in fiction – Krazy Kat. / My favourite composers – Schumann and Schubert, Brahms, Mahler and Charles Ives.