Who are your favourite writers?
AJ Liebling, Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Twain.
Who is your hero of fiction?
Indiana Jones.
What is it that you most dislike?
Jealousy and envy.
What is your greatest regret?
The failure to properly acknowledge everyone from my parents to schoolmates and professional acquaintances who have been kind and generous to me.
What is your motto?
Anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Who would be your ideal dinner party guests and what three wines would you serve?
I’d gather together a group of political heavyweights in the form of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. I’d tailor my wines to the guests, serving Jefferson a bottle of 2012 Chapoutier Ermitage l’Ermite, Lincoln 1978 Guigal Côte Rôtie La Mouline and Churchill 2002 Sine Qua Non Syrah Just For The Love Of It. All three wines would be poured from magnum.”