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.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 October 2014 source ↗
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.
Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
Every single person and living creature on the planet is safe and well nourished.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Lack of self-criticism.
Self-criticism.
Stephen Fry, Patrick Stewart, Sally Mann, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Hutton, Lauren Bacall
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