Being with animals.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
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View all 161 →Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
Just a lazy day roaming New York with my daughters—La Esquina for lunch and Mister Softee for dessert.
When, as a university freshman, I would go to the ocean in the summer and free-dive all day long.
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Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
That they can pick up where we left off.
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