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.
Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
That it all goes away and never comes back.
I’m a very fearless person.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
Three times when I lived in New York, I missed seeing David Bowie in real life by moments.
I’m at my happiest in the ocean, and even better if my husband is there throwing me around.
I think we become stars.
Fewer night shifts.
Running out of time.
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