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.
Taking an overnight train in Europe.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 January 2026 source ↗
Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Using knowledge as a weapon.
Craving the kind of success I pretend to despise.
Cycling around Martha’s Vineyard alone in the summer of 1976.
My children dying before me.
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