The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 source ↗
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Question
Are you afraid of death?
Death & what remains
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 August 2013 source ↗
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View all 158 →Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 August 2022 source ↗
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
Yeah. I’m the luckiest person who ever lived, you know? I worked hard, like a demon. Some would say too hard from time to time, and I over-married, and I had a magnificent child. I have been incredibly fortunate, but I had the American Dream, and it didn’t matter to anybody that nobody in my family had ever been to college.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗
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View profile →When I was an idiot high school student, as opposed to being an idiot adult, I used to drive very fast.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
I don’t think so! You can’t really know that until the moment of your death, at which point you will probably not be afraid because you won’t be there. I have a very old friend who called me last year to say, “Okay I am done. I am not fighting this anymore. I am checking out. I am calling to say goodbye because I am not really conscious most of the time. I am cutting off the pain killers.” He seemed okay. That was not the moment of his death, but it was within two or three days.
Recorded The Talks, 8 February 2023 source ↗
Probably when our children were small, which is not to say I am unhappy now.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 August 2013 source ↗
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