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.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
I am not afraid.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
Losing my mind.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
It’s really, really nice.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
Intrusive thoughts and caffeine.
The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
Fran Lebowitz, Sharon Corr, Tom Burke, Jean Smart, Kerry Godliman, Bill Moyers
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