I'd love to see my friends' responses!

These ten (10) questions originally came from a French series, "Bouillon de Culture" hosted by Bernard Pivot. They're better known as the questions that James Lipton asks every guest at the end of "Inside the Actor's Studio."

1. What is your favorite word?
"Smock." Thanks, Bill Watterson! (http://www.dontknockmysmock.com/)

2. What is your least favorite word?
"Faggot."

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Truth. Especially creative, spiritual, or emotional truth.

4. What turns you off?
Overconfidence. Usually. Except when it turns me on.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
"Pigfucker."

6. What sound or noise do you love?
Purring.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?
Upstairs neighbors. There are a large number of innocuous sounds that I can tolerate coming from around or below me that thoroughly grate on me when coming from above. This might be unusual, but it's easy to see it being tied into some weird evolutionary survival instinct.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
There's a knight-in-shining-armor appeal to law enforcement, but I'd not last long refusing to enforce the swath of laws I disagree with.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Anything I had to be democratically elected to by more than a couple dozen people.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"I noticed you were paying attention and I like that."