Sam Shepard: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Sam Shepard said elsewhere, not written here

Before I was born.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

Pamela Anderson Canadian-American actress and model

When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2008 source ↗

Anna Friel English actress

Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.

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

Fatima Bhutto Pakistani writer

Today, waking up in the dark hours of the morning with a litter of puppies snoozing on my bed.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗

Maybe Kate Moss.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2014 source ↗

That's a hard one. All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Márquez.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2014 source ↗

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