Iris Apfel: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Iris Apfel said elsewhere, not written here

I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 August 2018 source ↗

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Graydon Carter

My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗

Shaun White American snowboarder and skateboarder

Easy – winning the gold medal for the men's half-pipe in Vancouver.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 March 2010 source ↗

Renée Zellweger

Any recent gathering with friends and family; yesterday, running by the ocean; anytime, solving a problem or creating something. Right now, in bed with news and popcorn.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗

Paul Weller English singer-songwriter and musician