The question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?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.
Being in love while organizing my closet.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2010 source ↗
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
Happiness springs from having found a form of expression that also earns recognition.
Right now, here with you. Let’s not ruin it by talking.
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.”
David Byrne, Jane Birkin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carly Simon, Whoopi Goldberg, Elton John
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