Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2012 source ↗
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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
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Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
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That they get it.
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
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