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.
Not being able to work.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗
My lips are sealed.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.
Fifty per cent of the books on my shelf, so much so that I gave them away.
I didn’t get a part in a TV series for a writer that I’ve always wanted to work with, but I wasn’t right for it, if I’m truly honest.
Learning lines.
Friendly, opinionated, hilarious.
My parents, because I rather slipped from their standards on more than one occasion. And when they got older, I wish I’d been kinder and more tolerant with them.
Insurance – it’s such a scam.
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