The question
What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?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.
Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
Being with those that I love, and they have no problems.
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
A walk on the Golden Strand beach in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
Probably Daniel Barenboim. His blend of insane talent, intellect, and profound humanitarianism is one that comes along very, very rarely. I would put Martina Navratilova and Stephen Sondheim in a tie for second.
Being found out.
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Helena Bonham Carter, Julie Taymor, Audra McDonald, Jane Birkin, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Grant
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