Bill Maher: 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.

Recorded Bill Maher said elsewhere, not written here

Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2010 source ↗

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Frank McCourt Teacher and memoirist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

It was desperate because of certain things, ingredients like my father being an alcoholic, my mother having too many babies in too short a time, no work available in Ireland, and even when my father did get a job he drank the wages. Then there was the harsh kind of schooling we had with school masters who ruled with a stick and then because of the overwhelming presence of the church, which imbued us with fear all the time. So it was fear, dampness, poverty, alcoholism, fear of the church, fear of the school masters, fear in general.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 19 June 1999 source ↗

Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, short story writer and essayist

Sometimes, it is the possibility of loneliness. Other times, it is the possibility of never being alone, having no privacy, being under the control of another.

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

Paula Wilcox