The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Not being able to work.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
A sense of what really matters.
An air traffic controller.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Kevin Rowland, Shirley Manson, Ed Koch, Mel Brooks, Bobbi Brown, Trevor Noah
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