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 ↗
I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
Perfection is a second-rate idea. I would guess, however, that perfected happiness would be joy, the most intricate and mercurial of all sensations. The moment one recognizes joy, it flees. I’m not sure where Proust is going with this line of questioning, and I don’t want to be evasive, so I will say my idea of perfect happiness is the end of economics; we grow like flowers and fly like birds; the lion lays down with the lamb—a ridiculous idea.
Watching Foyle’s War in bed with my husband and the dogs.
Lack of self-criticism.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Self-criticism.
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.
Little Richard, Toni Collette, Bill Clinton, Judd Apatow, Hugh Grant, David Hyde Pierce
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