What is your greatest fear?
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗