• What do you consider your greatest achievement? Proving that I was more successful than my father.
• What is your idea of perfect happiness? There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
• What is your current state of mind? What kind of question is this? My current 'state of mind' is fine, thank you.
• What is your favorite occupation? My current one, I suppose.
• What is your most treasured possession? A music box my mother gave me when I was a child.
• What or who is the greatest love of your life? Helena. Before her, I never really cared for any of the women I dated.
• What is your favorite journey? Anything involving a train. It offers a spectacular view of the landscape wherever you are.
• What is your most marked characteristic? My pride, I suppose - that or my arrogance confidence.
• When and where were you the happiest? The first eleven years of my life in Romania were fairly happy.
• What is it that you most dislike? Stupid people.
• What is your greatest fear? Dying a coward Nothing.
• What is your greatest extravagance? The grand piano I had imported from Germany.
• Which living person do you most despise? I could never pick one single person. Aiden, Esme and Shane are all very high on my list... along with my father and that idiot who wrote those Twilight books.
• What is your greatest regret? Not going with my mother that dayMurdering that woman and starting it all Regrets are useless.
• Which talent would you most like to have? There is no talent I want that I do not already have.
• Where would you like to live? Somewhere in Europe. There are too many places to choose from.
• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Wanting to end your own life.
• What is the quality you most like in a man? Blunt honesty. False flattering gets old quite quickly.
• What is the quality you most like in a woman? Intelligence. The ability to carry on a conversation about something other than fashion or the like.
• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Lack of guilt in [...] certain situations.
• What is the trait you most deplore in others? Disloyalty.
• What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty, I suppose.
• Who is your favorite hero of fiction? No one.
• Whose are your heroes in real life? The great leaders of centuries past... those who fought even to the death for their land.
• Which living person do you most admire? The people I admire have all been dead for quite some time.
• What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Piety.
• On what occasions do you lie? Whenever I need to.
• Which words or phrases do you most overuse? "I suppose."
• If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Certain aspects of my past.
• What are your favorite names? [...] I prefer names that are not overused or overly common, like John.
• How would you like to die? I never want to die If I had to choose - this is a ridiculous question, by the way - I would want to die fighting. None of this 'in my sleep' or 'accidental' deaths for me, thank you.
• If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A wolf, maybe. Some kind of predatory animal.