The question
What do you fear most?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.
Losing my mind.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2025 source ↗
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
I fear nothing, except for flying.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
Being in process on a creative project I love.
Self-importance.
Filippo Grandi, United Nations Refugee Agency high commissioner.
Probably as a small child in a pool in my mother’s arms.
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