Bill Moyers: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

The question

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.

Bill Moyers

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist

Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 November 2016 source ↗

I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 October 2015 source ↗

My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 January 2024 source ↗

The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗

Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2011 source ↗

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