Ed Koch: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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.

Ed Koch

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

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Amy Poehler

A good nap and a full house.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 November 2014 source ↗

Danielle Steel Novelist

Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗

Patti LaBelle

Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Late one Sunday afternoon, my three-year-old granddaughter, out of the blue, took my hand and said she wanted to whisper something to me. Could we go for a ride around the block before we all sat down for dinner? Just the two of us? Holding hands as we walked to and from the car in the driveway: Bliss.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 March 2019 source ↗